Wisdom

Look within; within is the fountain of all good.

A stitch in time saves nine.

Alice had begun to think that very few things indeed were really impossible.

Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity to what we would have others think of us.

angry people are not always wise;

Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

The only gift is a portion of thyself.

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.

Simplify, simplify.

the cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

a man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

A small leak will sink a great ship,

Buy what thou hast no need of, and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessaries.

Diligence is the mother of good luck,

The highest excellence is like (that of) water.

He who knows other men is discerning; he who knows himself is intelligent.

He who is satisfied with his lot is rich;

Clay is fashioned into vessels; but it is on their empty hollowness, that their use depends.

He who knows (the Tao) does not (care to) speak (about it); he who is (ever ready to) speak about it does not know it.

no calamity greater than to be discontented with one's lot;

There are things which are within our power, and there are things which are beyond our power.

Men are disturbed not by things, but by the views which they take of things.