We are the men of intrinsic value, who can strike our fortunes out of ourselves, whose worth is independent of accidents in life, or revolutions in government: we have heads to get money, and hearts to spend it.

For strong souls Live like fire hearted suns, to spend their strength In furthest striving action.

Feast of Peter & Paul, Apostles Kind souls, you wonder why, love you, When you, you wonder why, love none. We love, Fool, for the good we do, Not that which unto us is done.

Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.

What man would be wise, let him drink of the river That bears on his bosom the record of time; A message to him every wave can deliver To teach him to creep till he knows how to climb.

God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.

A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn.

Human civilization is not something achieved against nature; it is rather the outcome of the working of the innate qualities of man.

The first art to be learned by a ruler is to endure envy.

Don't think there are no crocodiles because the water is calm.

It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books - what other men do not say in whole books.

Abstract Art: A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.

The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only far more expensive.

Not observation of a duty but liberty itself is the pledge that assures fidelity.

Noting is more difficult than competing with a myth.

People would enjoy life more if, once they got what they wanted, they could remember how much they wanted it.

Would he were fatter! But I fear him not. Yet if my name were liable to fear, I do not know the man I should avoid So soon as that spare Cassius.

Thy voice sounds like a prophet's word; And in its hollow tones are heard The thanks of millions yet to be.

Fatigue is the best pillow.