He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life.
Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.
Stupidity talks, vanity acts.
Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.
I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, – and the stars through his soul.
In the animal world no creature born to be a dove turns into a scavenger. This happens only among men.
The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity; in a girl boldness.
There is in every village a torch – the teacher; and an extinguisher – the priest.
Joy’s smile is much closer to tears than laughter.
The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live.
A great artist is a great man in a great child.
A library implies an act of faith.
From a political point of view, there is but one principle, the sovereignty of man over himself. This sovereignty of myself over myself is called Liberty.
Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.
When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.
I don’t mind what Congress does, as long as they don’t do it in the streets and frighten the horses.
All the human and animal manure which the world wastes, if returned to the land, instead of being thrown into the sea, would suffice to nourish the world.
Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.
Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides.
All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.