Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.

An ignorant person is inclined to blame others for his own misfortune. To blame oneself is proof of progress. But the wise man never has to blame another or himself.

Difficulty shows what men are.

“Finite to fail, but infinite to venture.” 

“Opinion is a fitting thing but truth outlasts the sun - if then we cannot own them both, possess the oldest one.” 

“The Truth must dazzle gradually or every man be blind.” 

“Your brain is wider than the sky” 

“There is no point in using the word 'impossible' to describe something that has clearly happened.” 

“Wisdom is seeing something in a non-habitual manner.” 

“In a conflict between the heart and the brain, follow your heart. ” 

No matter what one does, regardless of failure or success, the experience is a form of success in itself.

Everything negative – pressure, challenges – is all an opportunity for me to rise.

You make mistakes. Mistakes don’t make you.

Nature never became a toy to a wise spirit. The flowers, the animals, the mountains, reflected the wisdom of his best hour, as much as they had delighted the simplicity of his childhood.

Nature never wears a mean appearance. Neither does the wisest man extort her secret, and lose his curiosity by finding out all her perfection.

"It seems to me that we never do anything else," murmered Dorian.” 

“To be popular one must be a mediocrity."

“We are punished for our refusals. Every impulse that we strive to strangle broods in the mind and poisons us. The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the recollection of a pleasure, or the luxury of a regret. The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful. It has been said that the great events of the world take place in the brain. It is in the brain, and the brain only, that the great sins of the world take place also.” 

“If I could get back my youth, I'd do anything in the world except get up early, take exercise or be respectable.” 

“If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat.” 

“What is done is done. What is past is past."

A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree; or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely… but by watching for a time his motions and plays, the painter enters into his nature and can then draw him at every attitude.

“You are a sceptic." "Never! Scepticism is the beginning of faith." "What are you?" "To define is to limit.” 

“Even things that are true can be proved.”