The Artist always has the masters in his eyes.
Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Science does not know its debt to imagination.
Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.
Who loses a day loses life.
Take egotism out and you would castrate the benefactor.
Patience and fortitude conquer all things.
None believeth in the soul of man, but only in some man or person old and departed. Ah me! no man goeth alone. All men go in flocks to this saint or that poet, avoiding the God who seeth in secret. Th...
Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass.
Over the inter glaciers,I see the summer glow,And, through the wild-piled snowdrift,The warm rosebuds below.
Don't be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams.
Books are for nothing but to inspire
Every word was once a poem.
Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.
Some of your hurts you have cured And the sharpest you still have survived But what torments of grief you endured From the evil which never arrived.
Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function.
All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.
Self-command is the main elegance.
Pride ruined the angels.