It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are, if indeed you cannot get it above them, than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise.
It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.
It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.
It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.
Instead of noblemen, let us have noble villages of men.
In wildness is the preservation of the world.
In the long run men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, though they should fail immediately, they had better aim at something high.
In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.
Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things.
If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
