You want to talk to someone; first open your ears.

Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.

Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another.

The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things.

The evening of life brings with it its lamps.

He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.

Close your eyes and you will see.

I am an equation that only she solves, These X's and Y's by other names called, My way of division is desperatley flawed, while I multiply days without her.

And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

Maybe there is another who sees life not as a flickering candle but as a torch that can illuminate an undiscovered world.

Of moral purpose I see no trace in Nature. That is an article of exclusively human manufacture and very much to our credit.

A continued atmosphere of hectic passion is very trying if you haven't got any of your own.

The power to tax is the power to destroy.

The world is more peaceful and more free under my leadership.

It's very important for men to look downward, to the next generation

The life of nature we must meet halfway; it is shy, withdrawn, and blends itself with a vast neutral background. We must be initiated; it is an order the secrets of which are well guarded.

I'm miserable: that's why I have such a bad back, because I'm endlessly stressing out about my career.