"Imitation is the sincerest of flattery."

"True friendship is like sound health, the value is seldom appreciated until it is lost."

"If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city."

"Deliberate with caution, but act with decision; and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness."

"We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer tasting them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age."

"Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer."

"The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animals."

"You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea"

"One should never know too precisely whom one has married."

"The words 'I am...' are potent words; be careful what you hitch them to. The thing you're claiming has a way of reaching back and claiming you."

"Come out into the universe of Light. Everything in the universe is yours, stretch out your arms and embrace it with love. If you every felt you wanted to do that, you have felt God."

"The loftier the building, the deeper must the foundation be laid."