Respect should be earned by actions, and not acquired by years.

Well begun is half done.

Look with favour upon a bold beginning.

If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.

The price of greatness is responsibility.

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

The mind is everything. What you think you become.

Thousands of candles can be lit from a single, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

Men of perverse opinion do not know the excellence of what is in their hands, till some one dash it from them.

The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure.

The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.

No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the paren't of all the others.

Difficulties are things that show a person what they are.

The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.

The greatest way to live with honour in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere

A house divided against itself cannot stand.