“If the whole world depends on today's youth, I can't see the world lasting another 100 years.”
“Wisdom belongs in wonder.”
“Contentment is natural wealth.”
“Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.”
“Talk in order that I may see you.”
“An honest man is always a child.[Lat., Semper bonus homo tiro est.]”
“It is never right to do wrong or to requite wrong with wrong, or when we suffer evil to defend ourselves by doing evil in return.”
“So you would rather suffer an injustice than do an injustice?”
“I call that man idle who might be better employed.”
“Is there anyone to whom you entrust a greater number of serious matters than your wife? And is there anyone with whom you have fewer conversations?”
“If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.”
“If measure and symmetry are absent from any composition in any degree, ruin awaits both the ingredients and the composition... Measure and symmetry are beauty and virtue the world over.”
“The real artist, who knew what he was imitating, would be interested in realities and not in imitations; and would desire to leave as memorials of himself works many and fair; and, instead of being the author of encomiums, he would prefer to be the theme of them.”
“By far the greatest and most admirable form of wisdom is that needed to plan and beautify cities and human communities.”
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is a habit.”
“No man has a right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training”
“Man must rise above the Earth - to the top of the atmosphere and beyond - for only thus will he fully understand the world in which he lives.”
“Knowing thyself is the height of wisdom.”
“True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing. And in knowing that you know nothing, that makes you the smartest of all.”
“Every action has its pleasures and its price.”
“Nobody knows what death is,nor whether to manit is perchance the greatest of blessings,yet people fear it as if they surely knewit to be the worse of evils.”
“Through your rags I see your vanity.”
“Better to do a little well, then a great deal badly.”
“The more I know, the more I know that I don't know.”
“Pride divides the men, humility joins them.”
