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Experience teaches us in a millennium what passion teaches us in an hour.

When the curtain falls no one is ready

Ones real deathless wealth is all the beautiful souls one has seen and spiritually touched.

There was never a great man who had not a great mother.

I think if I were dying and I heard of an act of injustice, it would start me up to a moment's life again.

How hard it is to make your thoughts look anything but imbecile fools when you paint them with ink on paper.

I know there will be spring, as surely as the birds know it when they see above the snow two tiny, quivering green leaves. Spring cannot fail us.

Genius has no limit of sex or race.

Marriage for love is the beautifulest external symbol of the union of souls, marriage without it is the uncleanliest traffic that defiles the world.

We were equals once when we lay new-born babes on our nurse's knees. We will be equal again when they tie up our jaws for the last sleep.

Soul, what have I to do with you?

I am a man who believes nothing, hopes nothing, fears nothing, feels nothing. I am beyond the pale of humanity [ ... ]

If the bird does like its cage, and does like its sugar and will not leave it, why keep the door so very carefully shut?

One has no right to form ideals of people, and then, because they don't justify them, become bitter.

God said, 'When one man and one woman shine together, it makes the most perfect light.

A word may become so defiled by bad use that it will take a century before it can be purifed, and brought into use again.

Love, smoke and a cough cannot long be hid!

It is finer to bring one noble human being into the world and rear it well ... than to kill ten thousand.

There are only two things that are absolute realities, love and knowledge, and you can't escape them.

Everything has two sides - the outside that is ridiculous, and the inside that is solemn.

We have been so blinded by thinking and feeling that we have never seen the World.

Marriage for love is the most beautiful external symbol of the union of souls; marriage without it is the least clean traffic that defiles the world.

The surest sign of fitness is success.

A child sees everything, looks straight at it, examines it, without any preconceived idea ...

No good work is ever done while the heart is hot and anxious and fretted.

This dirty little world full of confusion, and the blue rag, stretched overhead for a sky, is so low we could touch it with our hand.

Power! Did you ever hear of men being asked whether other souls should have power or not? It is born in them.

They are called finishing-schools and the name tells accurately what they are. They finish everything.

Wisdom never kicks at the iron walls it can't bring down.

Why hate, and struggle, and fight? Let is be as it would.

The brain works better if the hand works too.

There's something so beautiful in coming on one's very inmost thoughts in another. In one way it is one of the greatest pleasures one has.

I am not in so great a hurry to put my neck beneath any man's foot; and I do not so greatly admire the crying of babies

My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those who are sad.

For those of us who have a ground of knowledge which we cannot transmit to outsiders, it is perhaps more profitable to act fearlessly than to argue.