To spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use them too much for ornament is affection; to make judgment wholly by their rules is the humor of a scholar.

It is impossible to love and to be wise.

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand - and melting like a snowflake.

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

All rising to great places is by a winding stair.

It's not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity.

Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider.

Life is a marshmallow, easy to chew but hard to swallow.

If life is nothing more than a journey to death, autumn makes sense but spring does not.

The death of a man brings a stop to his life, but not an end to his destiny. When destiny is well fulfilled, impacts linger behind as at the time life goes to hide!

He would gaze at her with intrigued longan seed eyes.

It's time for me to go. But I would rather stay.

The secret to creative freedom is letting go of our habitual certainities.

Only ... from personal experience [can a man] take the necessary measures without a preliminary process of trial and error.

The history of the Americas is one of constant warfare over salt.

Who fastest walks, but walks astray, Is only furthest from his way.

The ties that I have here were too strong to break.

I hate wearing anything tight. A corset is my idea of torture.