A diamond is just a lump of coal that stuck to its job.
Love shows itself more in adversity than in prosperity; as light does, which shines most where the place is darkest.
I awoke, only to see that the rest of the world is still asleep.
If you find from your own experience that something is a fact and it contradicts what some authority has written down, then you must abandon the authority and base your reasoning on your own findings.
Obstacles cannot bend me. Every obstacle yields to effort.
Motion is created by the destruction of balance.
A clever man without wisdom is like a beautiful flower without fragrance.
The greatest geniuses sometimes accomplish more when they work less.
life without love, is no life at all
Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.
As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.
You must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.
I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.
Nature is the source of all true knowledge. She has her own logic, her own laws, she has no effect without cause nor invention without necessity.
Details make perfection, and perfection is not a detail.
I'm not contented to capture the world. I want to change it.
Learning is the only thing that never disappoints us.
It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.
Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.
All thoughts start from emotions.
The artist sees what others only catch a glimpse of.
It is useful to constantly observe, note, and consider.
Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.
People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life.
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