We are here on earth to do good to others. What the others are here for, I do not know.
The free thinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
Culture is the endeavour to know the best and to make this knowledge prevail for the good of all humankind.
Humid the air! Leafless, yet soft as spring. The tender purple spray on copse and briers! And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, she needs not June for beauty’s heightening. Lovely all the time she lies...
Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming.
Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret.
Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
If there ever comes a time when the women of the world come together purely and simply for the benefit of mankind, it will be a force such as the world has never known.
Yes! in the sea of life enisled, With echoing straits between us thrown, Dotting the shoreless watery wild, We mortal millions live alone.
Miracles are doomed; they will drop out like fairies and witchcraft, from...
The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the need in man himself for going upright. The love of liberty is simply the instinct in man for expansion.