O reputation! dearer far than life.

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

Fate loves the fearless.

The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers.

All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

Light is the symbol of truth.

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof.

The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.

Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.

When two partners always agree, one of them is not necessary." If there is some point you haven't thought about, be thankful if it is brought to your attention.

There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.

Once you get people laughing they're listening and you can tell them almost anything.

Someone has written, Love is a verb. It requires doing -not just saying and thinking. The test is in what one does, how one acts, for love is conveyed in word and deed.

You are a victim of the rules you live by.

Swim or sink, live or die, survive or perish with my country was my unalterable determination.

Sometimes you may feel like you are just about to realize your goal only to fall short. That is no reason to quit. Defeat happens only to those who refuse to try again.

You leave part of yourself on every stage you're on. How could you not live in the air somehow?

All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.

At certain periods of life, we live years of emotion in a few weeks, and look back on those times as on great gaps between the old life and the new.