I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.

Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little.

So very difficult a matter is it to trace and find out the truth of anything by history.

An old doting fool, with one foot already in the grave.

No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.

Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.

The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.

The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.

Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.

Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.