Listen not to a tale-bearer or slanderer, for he tells thee nothing out of good-will; but as he discovereth of the secrets of others, so he will of thine in turn.

How many things I can do without!

Wisest is he who knows he knows not.

Beloved Pan and all ye other gods who haunt this place, give me beauty in the inward soul; and may the outward and the inward man be one.

Only the extremely ignorant or the extremely intelligent can resist change.

If you can do only a little. Do what you can. What you cannot enforce, do not command.

I don't care what people say about me. I do care about my mistakes.