This is a universe that does not favor the timid.

The more I learn, the less I realize I know.

Regard your good name as the richest jewel you can possibly be possessed of.

When you want success as badly as you want the air, then you will get it. There is no other secret of success.

Whenever, therefore, people are deceived and form opinions wide of the truth, it is clear that the error has slid into their minds through the medium of certain resemblances to that truth.

The years wrinkle our skin, but lack of enthusiasm wrinkles our soul.

There is no possession more valuable than a good and faithful friend.

You never know a line is crooked unless you have a straight one to put next to it.

If you want to be wrong then follow the masses.

If what you want to tell me is neither True nor Good nor even Useful, why tell it to me at all?

Marry or marry not, in any either case you'll regret it.

Give me beauty in the inward soul; and may the outward and inward may be one.

The greatest of all mysteries is the man himself.

To need nothing is divine, and the less a man needs the nearer does he approach to divinity.

All that I know is nothing - I'm not even sure of that.

It is possible that a man could live twice as long if he didn't spend the first half of his life acquiring habits that shortens the other half

Fear of women love more than hate the man.

How can you call a man free when his pleasures rule over him.

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.

People learn more on their own rather than being force fed.

There is but one evil, ignorance.

To find yourself, think for yourself.

The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.