A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.

Appearances to the mind are of four kinds. Things either are what they appear to be; or they neither are, nor appear to be; or they are, and do not appear to be; or they are not, and yet appear to be. Rightly to aim in all these cases is the wise man’s task.

The universe is wider than our views of it.

Consider the rights of others before your own feelings, and the feelings of others before your own rights.

What is a man in nature? Nothing in relation to the infinite, everything in relation to nothing, a mean between nothing and everything.

Don't be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn't do what you do or think as you do or as fast. There is a time when you didn't know what you know today.

What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.

I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.

The man who is truly good and wise will bear with dignity whatever fortune sends, and will always make the best of his circumstances.

A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

The wise man accepts his pain, endures it, but does not add to it.