Anempty sack cannot stand up.

Those who trust us educate us.

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, Beautiful old people are works of art.

I'vealways felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the numberof conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the sametopic.

A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations, is really an uncreative mind.

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire isthat which he exercises over himself.

You can outdistance that which is running after you, but not what is running insideyou.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing:

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, youwouldn't sit for a month.

Angels fly, because they take themselves lightly.

You can not do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.