Life too near paralyses art.
If we live truly, we shall see truly.
The virtue in most request is conformity.
It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to put trust in ideas, and not in circumstances.
The great majority of men are bundles of beginnings.
The only sin that we never forgive in each other is a difference in opinion.
The highest compact we can make with our fellow is – Let there be truth between us two forevermore.
Let no man pull you low enough to hate him.
Illusion is the first of all pleasures.
It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, as long as he be a man of merit.
If all you can do is crawl, start crawling.
Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man.
She stepped out barefoot on to the grass, her soul naked, sun beating to her heart’s rhythm, bathing her skin. In her mind, she had already escaped.
In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.
Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
In failing circumstances no one can be relied on to keep their integrity.
Failure is success if we learn from it.
A beautiful form is better than a beautiful face; it gives a higher pleasure than statues or pictures; it is the finest of the fine arts.
Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds.
He presents me with what is always an acceptable gift who brings me news of a great thought before unknown. He enriches me without impoverishing himself.
