“Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.”
“No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.”
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness.”
“Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.”
“To live without philosophizing is in truth the same as keeping the eyes closed without attempting to open them.”
“Good sense is of all things among men the most equally distributed.”
“Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.”
“The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.”
“If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.”
“Conquer yourself rather than the world.”
“The more enlightened our houses are, the more their walls ooze ghosts.”
“You take delight not in a city’s seven or seventy wonders, but in the answer it gives to a question of yours.”
“Arriving at each new city, the traveler finds again a past of his that he did not know he had.”
“A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.”
“One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.”
“I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy.”
“Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.”
“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.”
“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”