Men like me are impossible until the day when they become necessary.
The need of the immaterial is the most deeply rooted of all needs. One must have bread; but before bread, one must have the ideal.
There is nothing like a dream to create the future.
I’d rather be hissed at for a good verse, than applauded for a bad one.
Toleration is the best religion.
Sleep comes more easily than it returns.
Before him he saw two roads, both equally straight; but he did see two; and that terrified him – he who had never in his life known anything but one straight line. And, bitter anguish, these two roads were contradictory.
He was fond of books, for they are cool and sure friends.
Emergencies have always been necessary to progress. It was darkness which produced the lamp. It was fog that produced the compass. It was hunger that drove us to exploration. And it took a depression to teach us the real value of a job.
There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
Night and the day, when united, Bring forth the beautiful light.
Caution is the eldest child of wisdom.
Morality is truth in full bloom.
She loved with so much passion as she loved with ignorance. She did not know whether it were good or evil, beneficent or dangerous, necessary or accidental, eternal or transitory, permitted or prohibited: she loved.
Great buildings, like great mountains, are the work of centuries.
There is neither a foreign war nor a civil war; there is only just and unjust war.
If you look in the eyes of the young, you see flame. If you look in the eyes of the old, you see light.
A house is built of logs and stone, of tiles and posts and piers; a home is built of loving deeds that stand a thousand years.
The soul helps the body, and at certain moments raises it. It is the only bird that sustains its cage.
A writer is a world trapped in a person.