Gold will be slave or master.
I teach that all men are mad.
The secret of all good writing is sound judgment.
Nothing’s beautiful from every point of view.
One night awaits all, and death’s path must be trodden once and for all.
It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, as long as he be a man of merit.
Make a good use of the present.
The perch swallows the grub-worm, the pickerel swallows the perch, and the fisherman swallows the pickerel; and so all the chinks in the scale of being are filled.
Not one word, not one gesture of yours shall I, could I, ever forget…
Having each some shingles of thought well dried, we sat and whittled them.
There are charms made only for distance admiration.
From his cradle to his grave a man never does a single thing which has any FIRST AND FOREMOST object but one – to secure peace of mind, spiritual comfort, for HIMSELF.
A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.
Poetry must be as new as foam and as old as the rock.
It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to put trust in ideas, and not in circumstances.
Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have.
We cannot well do without our sins; they are the highway of our virtue.
Society always consists in the greatest part, of young and foolish persons.
A lawyers dream of heaven; every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.
The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.
Whether he knew it or not, the life he lived was his penance. Punishing himself, for what he believes are his sins. Consciously or subconsciously, he creates the world he lives in. Never believing that he is deserving happiness, deserving joy. His self-destructive nature, in his eyes, and his eyes only, is justified. Everyone is deserving absolution, but he needs to understand, that he is the only one able to forgive himself.
To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.
