“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”

A friend to all is a friend to none.

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation.

Change in all things is sweet.

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

The soul never thinks without a mental picture.

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.

Whatever lies within our power to do lies also within our power not to do.

To lead an orchestra, you must turn your back on the crowd.

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Through discipline comes freedom.

Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.

The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.

For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.

Age’ is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.

Reverence is simply the experience of accepting that all Life is, in and of itself, of value.

No democracy can long survive which does not accept as fundamental to its very existence the recognition of the rights of minorities.

And more so now, since having a family – I don’t seek out any other acceptance.

Until the will and the affections are brought under the authority of Christ, we have not begun to understand, let alone to accept, His lordship.

If you advise someone on the condition that they have to accept it, then you are an oppressor.

Genuine self-acceptance is not derived from the power of positive thinking, mind games or pop psychology. IT IS AN ACT OF FAITH in the God of grace.

Modern intelligence won’t accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.