“Awareness of ignorance is the beginning of wisdom.”

“Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.”

“Four things belong to a judge: to hear courteously, to answer wisely, to consider soberly, and to decide impartially.”

“Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions, but those who kindly reprove thy faults.”

“I don't care what people say about me. I do care about my mistakes.”

“The work of vegetation begins first in the irritability of the bark and leaf-buds.”

“The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.”

“Those, that with haste will make a mighty fire,Begin it with weak straws.”