Be wiser than other people, if you can, but do not tell them so.

You have no idea what your legacy will be. Your legacy is what you do every day. Your legacy is every life you’ve touched, every person whose life was either moved or not. It’s every person you’ve harmed or helped. That’s your legacy.

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others, than you can by what others say about him!

The charges we bring against others often come home to ourselves; we inveigh against our faults which are as much ours as theirs; and so our eloquence ends by tellings against ourselves.

These are the arks, the trophies, I erect, That fortify thy name against old age.

He whose honor depends on the opinion of the mob must day by day strive with the greatest anxiety, act and scheme in order to retain his reputation. For the mob is varied and inconsistent, and therefore if a reputation is not carefully preserved it dies quickly.

No one returns with good will to the place which has done him a mischief.

Perfect wisdom has four parts; Wisdom, the principle of doing things right. Justice, the principle of doing things equally in public and private. Fortitude, the principle of not fleeing danger, but meeting it. Temperance, the principle of subduing desires and living moderately.

The opinion of 10,000 men is of no value if none of them know anything about the subject.

All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.

Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.

I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had.

We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it—and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove lid again—and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one any more.