Marry or marry not, in any either case you'll regret it

A system of morality that is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception that has nothing sound in it and nothing true.

Our lives are but specks of dust falling through the fingers of time. Like sands of the hourglass, so are the days of our lives.

All wars are fought for the acquisition of wealth

To need nothing is divine, and the less a man needs the nearer does he approach to divinity.

You never know a line is crooked unless you have a straight one to put next to it.

Four things belong to a judge: to hear courteously, to answer wisely, to consider soberly, and to decide impartially.

Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.

There's no good answer to a question you didn't hear

The body cannot be cured without regard for the soul.

There is no learning without remembering.

Be the kind of person that you want people to think you are.

There is no possession more valuable than a good and faithful friend.

Understanding a question is half an answer.

One should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him.

The more I learn, the less I realize I know.

An education obtained with money is worse than no education at all.

The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary. There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.

Nothing is so well learned as that which is discovered.