- Music expresses that which can not be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
- Certain thoughts are prayers. They are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.
- An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.
- The left-handed are precious; they take places which are inconvenient for the rest.
- A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.
- Nothing awakens a reminiscence like an odor.
- Where the telescope ends, the microscope begins. Which of the two has the grander view?
- To rescue from oblivion even a fragment of a language which men have used and which is in danger of being lost--that is to say, one of the elements, whether good or bad, which have shaped and complicated civilization--is to extend the scope of social observation and to serve civilization.
- The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.
- Imagination is intelligence with an erection.
- Popularity? It is glory's small change.
- Man lives by affirmation even more than he does by bread.
- [on bravery] Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.
- [on the future] There is nothing like a dream to create the future.
- Caution is the eldest child of wisdom.
- To die is nothing. Not to live is frightful.
- Not being heard is no reason for silence.
- A writer is a World trapped inside a person.
- Common sense is in spite of, not because of, Education.
- The Devil may visit us, but God lives here.
- The Paradise of the Rich is made from the Hell of the Poor.
- Music is noise that thinks.
- Men become accustomed to poison by degrees.
- Social Prosperity means Man Happy, the citizen free, the Nation great.
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