Keep your own secret, and get out other people's. - Philip Dormer Stanhope

Women who are either indisputably beautiful or indisputably ugly are best flattered upon the score of their understandings; but those who are in a state of mediocrity are best flattered upon their beauty, or at least their graces, for every woman who is not absolutely ugly thinks herself handsome; but not hearing often that she is so is the more grateful and the more obliged to the few who tell her so; whereas a decided and conscious beauty looks upon every tribute paid to her beauty only as her due, but wants to shine and to be considered on the side of her understanding…

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.

In seeking wisdom thou art wise in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool.