One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
The possible ranks higher than the actual.
The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone.
You can’t stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.
A man doesn’t know what he knows until he knows what he doesn’t know.
Be intent upon the perfection of the present day.
Great tranquility of heart is his who cares for neither praise nor blame.
Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.
Unless we remember we cannot understand.
The precision of naming takes away from the uniqueness of seeing.
It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.
Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.
The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man’s foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher.
You exist only in what you do.
I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.
We see things as we are, not as they are.
Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.
Talent works, genius creates.
I do not seek. I find.
Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
United we stand, divided we fall.
We can believe what we choose. We are answerable for what we choose to believe.
One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge.
