"The sun is new each day."

"Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony."

"A man's character is his guardian divinity."

"Big results require big ambitions."

"Even sleepers are workers and collaborators in what goes on in the Universe."

"Bigotry is the sacred disease."

"Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play."

"There is nothing permanent except change."

"Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details."

"Eyes and ears are poor witnesses to people if they have uncultured souls."

"Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character."

"Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy."

"It is hard to contend against one's heart's desire; for whatever it wishes to have it buys at the cost of soul."

"The eyes are more exact witnesses than the ears."

"Nature is wont to hide herself."

"To God everything is beautiful, good, and just; humans, however, think some things are unjust and others just."

"God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger."

"No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger."

"Justice will overtake fabricators of lies and false witnesses."

"You could not step twice into the same rivers; for other waters are ever flowing on to you."

"To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do."

"No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man."

"If you do not the expect the unexpected you will not find it, for it is not to be reached by search or trail."

"Deliberate violence is more to be quenched than a fire."

"Character is destiny."

"Much learning does not teach understanding."

"Nothing endures but change."

"Hide our ignorance as we will, an evening of wine soon reveals it."

"I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets."

"A man's character is his fate."

"Change alone is unchanging."

"The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle."