It is for you that paradise is opened, the tree of life is planted, the age to come is prepared, plenty is provided, a city is built, rest is appointed, goodness is established and wisdom perfected beforehand.

Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God.

I had always loved beautiful and artistic things, though before leaving America I had had a very little chance of seeing any.

A great artist is always before his time or behind it.

Neither ridiculous shriekings for revenge by French chauvinists, nor the Englishmen's gnashing of teeth, nor the wild gestures of the Slavs will turn us from our aim of protecting and extending German influence all the world over.

The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.

Tell me, shepherds, have you seen My Flora pass this way? In shape and feature Beauty's queen, In pastoral array.

Where there is no vision a people perish.

The best in this kind are but shadows. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act v. Sc. 1.

The wind that blows, the ship that goes And the lass the loves a sailor.

All that glisters is not gold.

What's the subject of life - to get rich? All of those fellows out there getting rich could be dancing around the real subject of life.

God is the immemorial refuge of the incompetent, the helpless, the miserable. They find not only sanctuary in His arms, but also a kind of superiority, soothing to their macerated egos; He will set the above their betters.

Do not be in a hurry to tie what you cannot untie.

Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.

With faces like dead lovers who died true.

Feast of Teresa of Avila, Mystic, Teacher, 1582 God has been very good to me, for I never dwell upon anything wrong which a person has done, so as to remember it afterwards. If I do remember it, I always see some other virtue in that person.

Every honest miller has a golden thumb.

The coward calls the brave man rash, the rash man calls him a coward.

To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.