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Study without thinking is labour lost; thinking without study is perilous.

To know what it is that you know and to know what it is that you do not know, that is understanding.

Possession of power without generosity; courtesy without seriousness; mourning without grief—I have no desire to look on such things.

When we meet men of worth, we should think how we may equal them. When we meet worthless men, we should turn to ourselves and find out if we do not resemble them.

Extravagance leads to excess, thrift to meanness; but it is better to be mean than to be guilty of excess.

All things in nature pass away, even as the stream flows.

It is when the cold of winter comes that you know the pine and the cypress to be evergreen.

To go beyond the mark is just as bad as to fall short of it.

If a man takes no thought for the morrow, he will be sorry before to-day is out.

A man who expects much from himself and demands little from others will never have any enemies.

A man who does not constantly say to himself, “What is the right thing to do?” I can do nothing for such a man.

A wise man seeks in himself for what he wants; a fool seeks for it in others.

It is plausible speech which confuses men’s ideas of what is moral worth; it is petty impatience which ruins great undertakings.

Among really educated men there is no caste or race distinction.

A good man hates to make excuses when he ought to say simply, “I want it.”