Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.
A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it's only money... they don't know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination.
Doubt grows with knowledge.
When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible.
When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.
Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love.
Friendship always benefits love sometimes injures.
It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.
One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.
Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.
Freedom is a man's natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.
Every gift which is given, even though is be small, is in reality great, if it is given with affection.
There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.
Beware of false knowledge it is more dangerous than ignorance.
The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.
Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.
Hope is a great falsifier. Let good judgment keep her in check.
In art the best is good enough.
One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.
Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.
If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.
Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.
Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others.
He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.
Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.
Nature seems at each man's birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues and vices, and to have determined how good or how wicked that man shall be capable of being.
Those who enjoy their own emotionally bad health and who habitually fill their own minds with the rank poisons of suspicion, jealousy and hatred, as a rule take umbrage at those who refuse to do likewise, and they find a perverted relief in trying to denigrate them.
One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.
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