“Great persons are able to do great kindnesses.”

The phoenix hope, can wing her way through the desert skies, and still defying fortune’s spite; revive from ashes and rise.

Love not what you are but only what you may become.

A wise man does not trust all his eggs to one basket.

That which we are capable of feeling, we are capable of saying.

It is good to live and learn.

The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the sum of his own works.

The road to the inn is much better than the stay.

Every man is the son of his own works.

There are only two families in the world, my old grandmother used to say, the Haves and the Have-nots.

One of the effects of fear is to disturb the senses and cause things to appear other than what they are.

I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea.

Dine on little, and sup on less.

A stout heart breaks bad luck.

To be good to the vile is to throw water into the sea.

Let every man look before he leaps.

God who gives the wound gives the salve.

Books were safer than other people anyway.

Do you know, one of the greatest problems of our age is that we are governed by people who care more about feelings than they do about thoughts and ideas?

Dogmatism is the greatest of mental obstacles to human happiness.

Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of great fear.

A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy can live.

Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.

Greatness is not built in a rush, but with care, patience and love.

Permanence is a wonderful magician. Now you see him, next he goes on to perform the greatest disappearing act of all time.