The cat and the mouse can’t be neighbors for long.
The zebra told the white horse, “I am white,” and told the black horse, “I am actually black.”
Even a small mouse has anger.
A spear is a big responsibility.
Opportunities come, but do not linger.
A house full of people is filled with different points of view.
Don’t spend time with people who don’t respect you.
There is more than one way to achieve a goal.
Take time to enjoy life’s roses.
Persist as tenaciously as you persist in eating.
A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault.
If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due to patient attention more than to any other talent.
I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smooth pebble, or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
The surest way to corrupt a young man is to teach him to esteem more highly those who think alike than those who think differently.
Is life not a hundred times too short for us to stifle ourselves?
At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time.
The most vulnerable and equally most unconquerable of things is human vanity.
Experience, as something sought after, does not work. We must not study ourselves in the midst of having an experience.
In every real man, there is a child that wants to play.
We are so fond of being out in Nature because it has no opinions of us.
The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.
People regard the obscure and unexplainable more seriously than the clear and explainable... Something that becomes clear ceases to concern us.
We ought to fear a man who hates himself, for we are at risk of becoming victims of his anger and revenge. Let us then try to lure him into self-love.
Without myth, every culture would lose its healthy creative power.
Frowning and fierceness do not prove manliness.
Rain does not make friends with anybody—it falls on any person it meets outside.
The house roof fights the rain, but he who is sheltered ignores it.
Being happy in one’s home is better than being a chief.
You know who you love, but you can’t know who loves you.
Until lions have their own historians, accounts of the hunt will always celebrate the hunter.
A wealthy man will always have followers.
It takes a whole village to raise a child.
Character is religion.
If you say yes, your [personal] God will also say yes.
When the music changes, so does the dance.
You may go where you want, but you cannot escape yourself.
Afterthought is good, but forethought is better
Bad is called good when worse happens.