To suffer the penalty of too much haste, which is too little speed.

Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.

The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.

It is foolish to tear one’s hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.

Justice is expensive in America. There are no Free Passes… You might want to remember this, the next time you get careless and blow off a few Parking Tickets. They will come back to haunt you the next time you see a Cop car in your rear-view mirror.

There is only a finger’s difference between a wise man and a fool.

It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a long head or a very short creed.

In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.

Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.

I don’t believe you could be a 39-year-old quarterback in the NFL and eat cheeseburgers every day. I want to be able to do what I love to do for a long time.

An overflow of good converts to bad.

Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.

The higher a man stands, the more the word vulgar becomes unintelligible to him.

He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad.

It is impossible to love and to be wise.

A properly balanced story provides an equal representation of the negative and positive attributes of, I could say the world, but it’s actually a being. ‚Harry Potter“s a good example. So Harry’s the hero, right. But he’s tainted with evil. There’s a dark and a light in every bit of that narrative. It’s well balanced.

In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious.

I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.

Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age.

Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.

The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

Showing off is the fool’s idea of glory.

Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.

Change alone is unchanging.

Of my mental cycles, I devote maybe ten percent to business thinking. Business isn’t that complicated. I wouldn’t want to put it on my business card.

An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.

Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion.

I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.

The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.

Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can’t find.

There are always people always asking you for something. But I feel like I have a foundation. I have a supporting cast where it doesn’t bother me too much.

We should take care not to make the intellect our goal; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

No man was ever wise by chance.

We are not punished for our sins, but by them.

Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.

Forty to 60 I would say is your prime. That’s when you know the most, you’ve seen the most, you understand the most, and you still have some physical energy.

But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.

Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.

It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.

Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.

I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.

Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.

To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness.

Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don’t throw away the ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer.

To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.

Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough.

No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

Every guilty person is his own hangman.

All great truths begin as blasphemies.

Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.

The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life – knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.

Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.