Just as people behave to me, 

so do I behave to them.

Always speak the truth, 

think before you speak, 

and write it down afterwards.

It is not enough to know your craft — 

you have to have feeling. 

Science is all very well, 

but for us imagination is worth far more.

Those who will not reason, are bigots, 

those who cannot, are fools, 

and those who dare not, are slaves.

Read not to contradict and confute, 

nor to believe and take for granted... 

but to weigh and consider.

Tell me and I forget. 

Teach me and I remember. 

Involve me and I learn.

When you realise the value of all life, 

you dwell less on what is past 

and concentrate more on the preservation of the future.

The knowledge from an enlightened person 

breaks on the hard rocks of ignorance.

The world is the great gymnasium 

where we come to make ourselves strong.

Individuality is founded in feeling; 

and the recesses of feeling, 

the darker, blinder strata of character, 

are the only places in the world 

in which we catch real fact in the making, 

and directly perceive how events happen, 

and how work is actually done.

Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. 

You will then find out how easy it is to get along.

It may be the part of a friend to rebuke a friend's folly.

No sensible decision can be made any longer 

without taking into account 

not only the world as it is, 

but the world as it will be.

The moral world 

is as little exempt as 

the physical world 

from the law of ceaseless change, 

of perpetual flux.

I would like to recapture that freshness of vision 

which is characteristic of extreme youth 

when all the world is new to it.

He wrapped himself in quotations — 

as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.