Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass.
Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.
Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.
I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the stern fact, the sad self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.
Don't trust children with edge tools. Don't trust man, great God, with more power than he has until he has learned to use that little better. What a hell we should make of the world if we could do wha...
Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.
The years teach much the days never know.
People do not deserve good writing, they are so pleased with bad.
Of all the ways to lose a person, death is the kindest.
It is not the length of life, but the depth.
As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.
We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more.
Nature hates calculators.
It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
A wise man always throws himself on the side of his assailants. It is more his interests than it is theirs to find his weak point.
We never touch but at points.
Accept the place the divine providence has found for you.
Self-command is the main elegance.