“The finest victory is to conquer one’s own heart.”

We love good looks rather than what is practical, Though good looks may prove destructive.

But a rascal of a child (that age is without pity).

Help yourself, and Heaven will help you.

Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them.

A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.

In everything one must consider the end.

Patience and time do more than strength or passion.

The sign brings customers.

One should oblige everyone to the extent of one’s ability. One often needs someone smaller than oneself.

Nothing is as dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is to be preferred.

As sheepish as a fox captured by a fowl.

Socrates, when informed of some derogating speeches one had used concerning him behind his back, made only this facetious reply, “Let him beat me too when I am absent.

Sadness flies away on the wings of time.

Diversity, that is my motto.

Rely only on yourself; it is a common proverb.

A bluejay in peacock feathers.

One’s better off alone, and yet there are so many things that are impossible to fathom on one’s own. In fact it’s a terrible business and the task is a hard one.

What we need is not a religion that is right where we are right, but one that is right where we are wrong.

Only peril can bring the French together. One can’t impose unity out of the blue on a country that has 265 different kinds of cheese.

The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.

Butterflies and birds are like one perfect teaspoon of creation.

When I look at nature I feel as if I’ll be able to paint it all, note it all down, and then you might as well forget it once you’re working.

When you make a mistake or get ridiculed or rejected, look at mistakes as learning experiences, and ridicule as ignorance. Look at rejection as part of one performance, not as a turn down of the performer.

Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.