All flatterers are mercenary, and all low-minded men are flatterers.

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.

Adventure is worthwhile.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.

Be a free thinker and don't accept everything you hear as truth. Be critical and evaluate what you believe in.

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.

But in the cause of science men are expected to suffer.

Some mysteries are meant to stay that way.

Night becomes day only when the sun appears

Status and class and social anxiety and perhaps social code are all released when you look at paintings of powerful individuals from the past.

They say you should never eat before you go to bed, but I've found just having a tiny little snack - like half an apple or something like that - before you go to sleep really helps.

Writing is thinking and thinking is hard work.

How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty. And yet it all seems limitless.

[Zwarte Piet] is unfortunate, and just like the early American blackface films, if it offends a segment of the population, it shouldn't be shown again.

I stared because their faces, so different, so similar, were all devastatingly, inhumanly beautiful.