For the world, I count it not an inn, but a hospital; and a place not to live, but to die in.

It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many million faces, there should be none alike.

Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living.

Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.

Light is the shadow of God.

What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, though puzzling questions, are not beyond all conjecture.

There are mystically in our faces certain characters which carry in them the motto of our souls, wherein he that cannot read may read our natures.

All the wonders you seek are within yourself.

There is musick, even in the beauty and the silent note which Cupid strikes, far sweeter than the sound of an instrument.

Think it more satisfactory to live richly than die rich.

We carry within us the wonders we seek without us.

Often the greatest progress happen in the most difficult of times.

I call him free who is led solely by reason.

Patience and propriety. It was the only graceful thing to do.

Yet man will never be perfect until he learns to create and destroy; he does know how to destroy, and that is half the battle.

For the love of god, find something actually socially useful to do with your money. Because if you don't, socialism's going to start looking a lot better to a whole lot of people.

Monet's work would have been even greater if he had not abandoned figure-painting.

What on earth have a man's name, degree, academic position, and of all things, opinions, to do with whether a thing is true?

As I said, this was my sarcastic summer. It was only long after that I recognized sarcasm as the protest of people who are weak.

I am not simply teaching the reading; I am teaching the reader.

What I'm interested in is modern American history. I'm taken with the changes that have occurred in America in my lifetime.