No man should travel until he has learned the language of the country he visits otherwise he voluntarily makes himself a great baby - so helpless and ridiculous.
The shoemaker makes a good shoe because he makes nothing else.
Flowers and fruits are always fit presents; flowers, because they are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.
If peace is to be maintained, it must be by brave men, who have come up to the same height as the hero, namely, the will to carry their life in their hand, and stake it at any instant for their princi...
Poetry must be as new as foam, and as old as the rock.
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.
The surest poison is time.
Thought is the property of those only who can entertain it. -
The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it.
Nature has made up her mind that what cannot defend itself shall not be defended.
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of our own mind.
Over the inter glaciers,I see the summer glow,And, through the wild-piled snowdrift,The warm rosebuds below.
There is one other reason for dressing well, namely that dogs respect it, and will not attack you in good clothes.
The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.
A great man is always willing to be little.
Every sweet hath its sour every evil its good.
Every hero becomes a bore at last.
Make yourself necessary to somebody.
A friend is one before whom I may think aloud.
The populace think that your rejection of popular standards is a rejection of all standard, and mere antinomianism; and the bold sensualist will use the name of philosophy to gild his crimes. But the...