What makes night within us may leave stars.
Tobacco is the plant that converts thoughts into dreams.
What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.
Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart.
Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.
A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in – what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and above him the stars.
To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful.
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.