A politician is like quicksilver: if you try to put your finger on him, you find nothing under it..

Public opinion is the pennant on a nation's mast which shows the politician and the editor how to trim the sails..

Reason is the miner's lamp used in bringing up ore from the mind..

Worry is half impatience and half ignorance..

Each man's soul is a menagerie where Conscience, the animal-tamer, lives with a collection of wild beasts..

We must be laid like a brand in the fire ... if we would gain immortal youth..

The ideal historian goes to the mouth of the tomb, cries: "Lazarus, come forth!" and sets him that was dead for ages, blinking and passionate, in the….

It is a mean thief or a successful author that plunders the dead..

A hole is nothing at all, but you can break your neck in it..

Art knows, life applies knowledge; art feels, life acts..

That art is best which suggests most..

A man's life is like a well, not like a snake--it should be measured by its depth, not by its length..

If you keep your eyes so fixed on heaven that you never look at the earth, you will stumble into hell..

Gold is so heavy it settles down upon the lowest souls..

A youth's knowledge is like a cheap shotgun-likely to do as much damage to the owner as to the game..

If you combine all the spectral rays into a single beam, you get white light; and, if you combine all the virtues into a single beam, you get charity..

Every wheatfield of human thought after a while becomes filled with cockle; then the husbandmen destroy the grain with the cockle and plant anew..

Autumn is a hint from God to Old Age..

Humility is pride in God..

Art is one of man's few serious activities..

Better a bald head than none at all..