Reality

Cowards die many times before their actual deaths

Any fool can critizise, condemn and complain – and most fools do

The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them

Every man has three characters - that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.

Let us, then, be what we are, and speak what we think, and in all things keep ourselves loyal to the truth

They do not love that do not show their love

I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.

Uncertainty is the worst of all evils until the moment when reality makes us regret uncertainty

The value of life ist not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them; a man may live long yet very little

You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother

They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

Words are only painted fire; a book is the fire itself.

Cynic: A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be

Information is not knowledge

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.

My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened

You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know

I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly