With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who...
In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work a great head.
Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read...
Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain which is the positive element of...
Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.
Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at...
Every parting gives a foretaste of death every reunion a hint of the...
After your death you will be what you were before your birth.
Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth every...
They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide...
It is with trifles and when he is off guard that a man best reveals his...
Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training for it trains...
Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.
Hatred is an affair of the heart contempt that of the head.
Change alone is eternal perpetual immortal.
To live alone is the fate of all great souls.
A man can be himself only so long as he is alone.
There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the...
The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home to roost.
