“Reprove your friend in secret and praise him openly.”

People of higher talent work, even if they seem to do nothing.

As you cannot do what you want, Want what you can do.

We know well that mistakes are more easily detected in the works of others than in one’s own.

The moment is timeless.

Principles for the Development of a Complete Mind: Study the science of art. Study the art of science. Develop your senses- especially learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else.

We are deceived by promises and time disappoints us.

Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.

Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold.

The greatest geniuses sometimes accomplish more when they work less.

Man has much power of discourse which for the most part is vain and false; animals have but little, but it is useful and true, and a small truth is better than a great lie.

Man has much power of discourse which for the most part is vain and false; animals have but little, but it is useful and true, and a small truth is better than a great lie.

Time stays long enough for those who use it.

One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.

All our knowledge has its origin in our perceptions.

Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.

The length of a man’s outspread arms is equal to his height.

Good books are as friends, willing to give to us if we are willing to make a little effort.

A mother is the best friend God ever gave.

I could not deprive you of the revelation of all that you could accomplish together, of a friendship that will define you both in ways you cannot yet realize.

To be without sympathy is to be alone in the world–without friends or country, home or kindred.

Consider it: every person you have ever met, every person will suffer the loss of his friends and family. All are going to lose everything they love in this world. Why would one want to be anything but kind to them in the meantime?

It is stupid to grieve for the loss of a girl friend: you might never have met her, so you can do without her.

It is not hard to deceive ministers, relatives and friends. But it is impossible to deceive Christ.

A friend of mine always says, ‘Women love me for the man I’m not.’