There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.
Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.
What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.
Each indecision brings its own delays and days are lost lamenting over lost days... What you can do or think you can do, begin it. For boldness has magic, power, and genius in it.
Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.
The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.
Divide and rule, a sound motto. Unite and lead, a better one.
The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become.
People who think honestly and deeply have a hostile attitude towards the public.
Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
A man who cannot command himself will always be a slave.
Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.
The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities; but to know someone who thinks and feels with us, and who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.
Enjoy what you can, endure what you must.
The solution of every problem is another problem
Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.
Everything is hard before it is easy.
If a good person does you wrong, act as though you had not noticed it. If we practice and eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, soon the wholeworld will be blind and toothless.
There are two things parents should give their children roots and wings. Roots to give them bearing and a sense of belonging, but also wings to help free them from constraints and prejudices and give them other ways to travel (or rather, to fly).
Mountains cannot be surmounted except by winding paths.
The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves, too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never have otherwise occurred...unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamed would have come his way.
The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.
Kindness is the golden thread that holds society together.
Belief is not the beginning of knowledge - it is the end.
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