The road to learning by precept is long, but by example short and effective.

We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.

It is a great thing to know the season for speech and the season for silence.

The courts of kings are full of people, but empty of friends.

Failure changes for the better, success for the worse.

You can end love more easily than you can moderate it.

No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.

The mind is slow to unlearn what it learnt early.

Nothing is our except time.

A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two.

School is testing our memory and real world is testing our memory + how we use this which we know.

I never understood, what a starving artist was until I became one.

I think young people should travel and travel often to other countries... like I do.

It's so much fun to interact together.

Be congruent, be authentic, be your true self.

Other men are lenses through which we read our own minds. Each man seeks those of different quality from his own, and such as are good of their kind; that is, he seeks other men, and the rest.

If life's lessons could be reduced to single sentences, ther would be no need for fiction.

The German chancellor said that our president lives in a different world. I believe he lives in a very real world.

I'm not sure I understand how responsibility for our choices makes sense if they are not determined.

There is in souls a sympathy with sounds.