wisdom
“Procrastination is the thief of time.”
“Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.”
“Good sense is of all things among men the most equally distributed.”
“You take delight not in a city’s seven or seventy wonders, but in the answer it gives to a question of yours.”
“always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.”
“Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.”
“Advice is like snow—the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.”
“For love is blind alway.”
“Instinct is a marvelous thing. It can neither be explained nor ignored.”
“As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.”
“Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves.”
“Don't waste your time with explanations; people only hear what they want to hear.”
“One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.”
“There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.”
“The traveller sees what he sees; the tourist sees what he has come to see.”
“Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.”
“It's no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”
“Can we ever have too much of a good thing?”
“What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.”
“To study and not think is a waste. To think and not study is dangerous.”