Each one of us must suffer long to himself before he can learn that he is but one in a great community of wretchedness which has been pitilessly repe….

I know, indeed, of nothing more subtly satisfying and cheering than a knowledge of the real good will and appreciation of others. Such happiness does….

If we like a man's dream, we call him a reformer; if we don't like his dream, we call him a crank..

Some people stay longer in an hour than others can in a week..

A friend knows how to allow for mere quantity in your talk, and only replies to the quality..

You'll find as you grow older that you weren't born such a great while ago after all. The time shortens up..

Primitive societies without religion have never been found..

Inequality is as dear to the American heart as liberty itself..

The conqueror is regarded with awe; the wise man commands our respect; but it is only the benevolent man that wins our affection..

If ever the public was betrayed by its press, it's ours..

By beauty of course I mean truth, for the one involves the other; it is only the false in art which is ugly, and it is only the ugly that is universa….

In Europe life is histrionic and dramatized, and in America, except when it is trying to be European, it is direct and sincere..

People naturally despise a dependant..

The wars come and go in blood and tears; but whether they are bad wars, or what are comically called good wars, they are of one effect in death and s….

Is it worth while to observe that there are no Venetian blinds in Venice?.

A man never sees all that his mother has been to him until it's too late to let her know that he sees it..

Do not trouble yourselves about standards or ideals; but try to be faithful and natural: remember that there is no greatness, no beauty, which does n….

He who sleeps in continual noise is wakened by silence..

The disposition to give a cup of cold water to a disciple is a far nobler property than the finest intellect. Satan has a fine intellect, but not the….

Wisdom and goodness are twin-born, one heart must hold both sisters, never seen apart..

The book which you read from a sense of duty, or because for any reason you must, does not commonly make friends with you..