If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.

When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.

It is not worth the while to let our imperfections disturb us always.

I also have in mind that seemingly wealthy, but most terribly impoverished class of all, who have accumulated dross, but not know not how to use it, or get rid of it, and thus have forged their own golden or silver fetters.

Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience.

The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.

All men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be.

The question is not what you look at, but what you see.

Things do not change; we change.