He that's secure is not safe.

When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.

Self-respect knows no considerations.

He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.

Better than a thousand hollow words is one word that brings peace.

The Devil can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.

It is only the wisest and the stupidest that cannot change.

No matter how dull or how mean or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.

Modesty is the conscience of the body.

He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book.

The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects them.

A hero is born among a hundred; a wise man is found among a thousand; but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.

A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

There are people in the world so hungry that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.

An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.

Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.

The wit knows that his place is at the tail of a procession.

It's good to know how to read, but it's dangerous to know how to read and not how to interpret what you're reading.

A wise man should not reveal his loss of wealth, the vexation of his mind, the misconduct of his own wife, base words spoken by others, and disgrace that has befallen him.

Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.

It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.

It is better to be violent if there is violence in our hearts than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.

History makes people wise.

There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.

If you desire many things, many things will seem few.

It is only the enlightened ruler and the wise general who will use the highest intelligence of the army for the purposes of spying and thereby they achieve great results.

There is no witness so terrible and no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us.

As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar it will cease to be popular.

Living a life is like constructing a building: if you start wrong you'll end wrong.

A common danger unites even the bitterest enemies

He that loves to be flattered is worthy o' the flatterer.

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

We should take care not to make the intellect our god, it has of course powerful muscles but no personality.

In the republic of mediocrity genius is dangerous.

The fault, dear Brutus, lies not within the stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings.

The direction of the mind is more important than its progress.

Where does discontent start? You are warm enough but you shiver. You are fed yet hunger gnaws you. You have been loved but your yearning wanders in new fields. And to prod all these there's time the Bastard Time.

Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition.

Old minds are like old horses, you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.

But the disparaging of those we love always alienates us from them to some extent. We must not touch our idols, the gilt comes off in our hands.

Do not differentiate on the basis of race, caste, creed or country.

No sinner is ever saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon.

There is no darkness, but ignorance.

All that we do is done with an eye to something else.

Compassion is no substitute for justice.

A man should first direct himself in the way he should go. Only then should he instruct others.

To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.

Having nothing, nothing can he lose.

Sometimes a concept is baffling, not because it is profound, but because it is wrong.

Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.

Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a spring of flowing water that the thirsty pass by, and from which they avoid drinking.

We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.

It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.

A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.

The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.

Buy what thou hast no need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessities.

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

Some single mind must be master, else there will be no agreement in anything.

The worst wheel of the cart makes the most noise.

It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing.

In nine cases out of ten a woman had better show more affection than she feels.

And whether you're an honest man or whether you're a thief depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief.

Of neighborhoods benevolence is the most beautiful. How can the man be considered wise who, when he had the choice, does not settle in benevolence.

Human beings must have action, and they will make it if they cannot find it.

The road to perdition has ever been accompanied by lip service to an ideal.

A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.

Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.

Everything popular is wrong.

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair, the rest is in the hands of God.

Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems in my opinion to characterize our age.

Character is that which reveals moral purpose exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids.

They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve.

If co-operation is a duty, I hold that non-co-operation also under certain conditions is equally a duty.

Do not be desirous of having things done quickly. Do not look at small advantages. Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly. Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished.

To be conscious that we are perceiving or thinking, is to be conscious of out own existence.

A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.

Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.

What's done can't be undone.

Straightforwardness without the rules of propriety becomes rudeness.

If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.

I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.

A whole is that which has beginning middle and end.

Just as a man would not cherish living in a body other than his own, so do nations not like to live under other nations, however noble and great the latter may be.

It is not fit that every man should travel, it makes a wise man better and a fool worse.

The superior man is slow in his words and earnest in his conduct.

Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself.

What you do not want done to yourself do not do to others.

Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.

Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.

Who had deceived thee so often as thyself?

Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.

The discontented man finds no easy chair.

You have your ideology and I have mine.

Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible in bright moments as well as in trouble, we cannot fully respond to its consolations because we lack equilibrium between light and darkness.

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.

Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.

It is better to rise from life as from a banquet - neither thirsty nor drunken.

Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.

The mirror reflects all objects without being sullied.

Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.

Elinor agreed with it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition.

Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds.

If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

So, what is discord at one level of your being is harmony at another level.

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.

Indeed I am very sorry to be right in this instance. I would much rather have been merry than wise.

Madness is badness of spirit when one seeks profit from all sources.

When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible.

The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.

Wisely and slow. They stumble that run fast.

There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good.

Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.

A principle is the expression of perfection and as imperfect beings like us cannot practice perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.

To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money and that is sincerity and integrity.

Self-pity in its early stages is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.

What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken!