One sees intelligence far more than one hears it. People do not always say transcendental things, but if they are capable of saying them, it is always visible.
Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.
There is a proper balance between not asking enough of oneself and asking or expecting too much.
Women and foxes, being weak, are distinguished by superior tact.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
Friends are relatives you make for yourself.
To burn always with this hard gemlike flame. To maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.
Why inflict pain on oneself, when so many others are ready to save us the trouble?
The sleep of a labouring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much; but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.
Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.
Since you are like no other being ever created since the beginning of time, you are incomparable.
Magic lives in curves, not angles.
Most of the fear that spoils our life comes from attacking difficulties before we get to them.
If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.
It doesn't matter what anybody thinks of what I do. The clock doesn't lie.
Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more, Men were deceivers ever, One foot in sea and one on shore; To one thing constant never.
All the discontented people I know are trying to be something they are not, to do something they cannot do.
Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible and achieves the impossible.
There are some people that you cannot change, you must either swallow them whole or leave them alone.
There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.