It is safer to learn than teach; and who conceals his opinion has nothing to answer for.

Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.

Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.

The secret of happiness is to count your blessings while others are adding up their troubles.

Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.

Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.

Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment the treasurer, of a wise man.

True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.

No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.

They that love beyond the world cannot be separated by it. Death cannot kill what never dies.

Death is only a horizon, and a horizon is only the limit of your sight. Open your eyes to see more clearly.

The greatest thing in the world is not in dying rich but leaving the richness behind for the world to treasure.

Starting over is opportunity informed by failure, which is opportunity made intelligent.

All the recognizable cliques came by, and so did those un-groupable stragglers who were known by their little circles of two or three.

If truth is not objective, there is no good or evil. There is only what people do and how people feel about it.

School should become the place where teachers, not just students, learn.

Maybe that's what love is. Giving others the power to hurt you and trusting they'll use it to heal you instead.

But only a brief momentis granted to the braveone breath or two, whose wage isThe long nights of the grave.

By poeticizing love, we imagine in those we love virtues that they often do not possess; this then becomes the source of constant mistakes and constant distress.

How does one cure the soul? Through the senses

Look: There's good creepy and there's bad creepy. Today's creepy is tomorrow's necessity.