Earth laughs in flowers.
A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist.
I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I am not afraid of falling into my inkpot.
Commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred.
To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
I didn’t find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me.
Every wall is a door.
Out of Plato come all things that are still written and debated about among men of thought.
One ought never to turn one’s back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!
Genius Borrows nobly.
Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.
Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity, and beauty as conspicuously as the want of it represents illness, weakness, disgrace, meanness, and ugliness.
Every old poem is sacred.
A name pronounced is the recognition of the individual to whom it belongs. He who can pronounce my name aright, he can call me, and is entitled to my love and service.
Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it: it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker.
I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.
Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker upon the planet. Then all things are at risk.
Logic is a poor guide compared with custom.
Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.
Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.
The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow; there is no humor in Heaven.
