Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.

Pray, look better, sir... those things yonder are no giants, but windmills.

Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.

In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.

He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

How will he who does not know how to govern himself know how to govern others?

Three things too much, and three too little are pernicious to man; to speak much, and know little; to spend much, and have little; to presume much, and be worth little.

That one man scorned and covered with scars Still strove with his last ounce of courage To reach the unreachable star.

The wicked are always ungrateful.

Her father guarded her, and she guarded herself; for there are no padlocks, bolts, or bars, that secure a maiden better than her own reserve.

Great persons are able to do great kindnesses.

No revolution is made out of shame. I reply: Shame is already revolution of a kind

What can I say? Some women are killers.

And now - Plato's words mock me in the shadows on the ledge behind the flames: '...the men of the cave would say of him that up he went and down he came without his eyes.

Fools who wear their hearts proudly on their sleeves, who cannot control their emotions, who wallow in sad memories and allow themselves to be provoked this easily - weak people, in other words.

The difference of a single day is perceptible. Vegetables can only be tasted in perfection, gathered the same day.

Don't be fooled by strength you can see," he said at last. "Yahweh often hides His power in the simple things, the weak things, and so His strength seems foolish in man's eyes.

Experts say you can't concentrate on more than one task at a time.

Nobody bores any man as much as an unhappy female.

few things are more rewarding than a child's open uncalculating devotion.

I bounded o'er the mountains, by the sides of the deep rivers, and the lonely streams, wherever nature led.