“ The most pathetic person in the world is some one who has sight but no vision. ”

“ When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us. ”

“ The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are. ”

“ How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it. ”

“ The best revenge is not to be like your enemy. ”

“ The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane. ”

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

“ If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I seek the truth, by which no one was ever truly harmed. It is the person who continues in his self-deception and ignorance who is harmed. ”

“ Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present. ”

“ The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury. ”

“ Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth. ”

“ Act without expectation. ”