“He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.”

“Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued. ”

“Know thyself.”

“Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.”

“The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.”

“The children now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise.”

“Silence is a beautiful story.”

“To labor in the arts for any reason other than love is prostitution.”

“Our job in this life is not to shape ourselves into some ideal we imagine we ought to be, but to find out who we already are and become it.”

“Watch out for intellect,because it knows so much it knows nothingand leaves you hanging upside down,mouthing knowledge as your heartfalls out of your mouth.”

“How very paltry and limited the normal human intellect is, and how little lucidity there is in the human consciousness, may be judged from the fact that, despite the ephemeral brevity of human life...”

“Ideas are the source of all things”

“Knowledge, like air, is vital to life. Like air, no one should be denied it.”

“Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.”

“I definitely learned a lesson this time. I know that I can be broken. I am not as tough as I thought. I see it now. At this point, it's the only thing good that came out of all of this. I know myse...”