Literature, so far as it is Literature, is an ‘apocalypse of Nature,’ a revealing of the ’open secret.
Wondrous indeed is the virtue of a true Book.
Ceea ce devenim depinde in mare masura de ce citim.
Economics is not a gay science. It is a dreary, desolate, and indeed quite abject and distressing one; what we might call, by way of eminence, the dismal science.
Endurance is patience concentrated.
He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.
A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.
I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will.
The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.
If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.
The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.
Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
No pressure, no diamonds.
Let each become all that he was created capable of being.
Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
Every noble work is at first impossible.
Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
Not what I have, but what I do is my kingdom.