"To live is well, but to live well is better"

"There is no shame in not knowing; the shame lies in not finding out."

"A spoken word is not a sparrow. Once it flies out, you can't catch it."

"Gossip needs no carriage."

"A kind word is like a spring day."

"It is not the horse that draws the cart, but the oats."

"In the multitude of counsellors there is safety."

"The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes--ah, that is where the art resides!"

"Give neither advice nor salt, until you are asked for it."

"There are no shortcuts to any place worth going."

"It may well be doubted whether human ingenuity can construct an enigma... which human ingenuity may not, by proper application, resolve."

"...Then anyone who leaves behind him a written manual, and likewise anyone who receives it, in the belief that such writing will be clear and certain, must be exceedingly simple-minded..."