“A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure.” 

I no longer wish to meet a good I do not earn, for example, to find a pot of buried gold, knowing that it brings with it new burdens.

We are always getting ready to live but never living.

To fill the hour – that is happiness.

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine. 

“You are a wonderful creation. You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.” 

“I think you are wrong, Basil, but I won't argue with you. It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue.” 

“Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.” 

“A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.” 

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” 

Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.

The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine.

What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.

The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.

We wish to be self-sustained. We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten.

The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.

Dare to let your dreams reach beyond you.

Shall we then judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? By the minority, surely.

Violence is not power, but the absence of power.

Its not where your dreams take you, its where you take your dreams.

The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.

I think when we don't know what to do it's wise to do nothing. Sit down quietly; quiet our hearts and minds and breathe deeply.

The wise man throws himself on the side of his assailants. It is more his interest than it is theirs to find his weak point.