Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it is practicable; and to make this custom the more significant, practice it first upon yourself.
Marcus Aurelius

Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.
Marcus Aurelius

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Marcus Aurelius

Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth.
Thomas A. Edison

Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack.
George S. Patton

So, do you live around here often?
Steven Wright

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.
Henri Nouwen

Mastery passes often for egotism.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.
Martin Luther

For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium.
Albert Camus

All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door.
Albert Camus

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy.
Robert A. Heinlein

It took me years to understand that words are often as important as experience, because words make experience last.
William Morris

May not the complaint, that common people are above their station, often take its rise in the fact of uncommon people being below theirs?
Charles Dickens

I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
Vincent Van Gogh

Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.
Billy Graham

God's angels often protect his servants from potential enemies.
Billy Graham

A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.
Alexander Pope

How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
Herbert Spencer