Do you know what friendship is it is to be brother and sister; two souls which touch without mingling, two fingers on one hand.

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. An ...

He who abandons the field is beaten.

Love is like a tree, it grows of its own accord, it puts down deep roots into our whole being.

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent.

Nothing discernable to the eye of the spirit is more brilliant or obscure than man; nothing is more formidible, complex, mysterious, and infinite. There is a prospect greater th ...

The quantity of civilization is measured by the quality of imagination.

There are no trifles in the human story, no trifling leaves on the tree.

There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.

To be a saint is the exception; to be upright is the rule. Err, falter, sin, but be upright. To commit the least possible sin is the law for man. Sin is a gravitation.