Self knowledge is best learned not by contemplation, but by action.

Fools and wise men are equally harmless. It is the half-fools and half-wise that are dangerous.

A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.

Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.

The loss of a much-prized treasure is only half felt when we have not regarded its tenure as secure.

Happy is it, indeed, for me that my heart is capable of feeling the same simple and innocent pleasure as the peasant whose table is covered with food of his own rearing, and who not only enjoys his meal, but remembers with delight the happy days and sunny mornings when he planted it, the soft evenings when he watered it, and the pleasure he experienced in watching its daily growth.

I wait for the morning of my tears