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 | "He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works,
the greatest number of the greatest ideas." | |
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Found in the topic Art.
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| "You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to
evil; buy it, by compromise with evil." | |
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Found in the topic Evil.
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| "It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends." | |
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Found in the topic Unsorted.
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| "They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most
love change." | |
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Found in the topic Change.
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| "When we build, let us think that we build for ever." | |
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Found in the topic Arab.
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| "There is no wealth but life." | |
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Found in the topic Life.
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| "I believe that the first test of a truly great man is his humility.
Really great men have a curious feeling that the greatness is not in them
but through them. And they see something divine in every other man and are
endlessly, incredibly merciful." | |
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Found in the topic Diversity.
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| "The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see
something, and tell what it saw in a plain way. Hundreds of people can
talk for one who can think, but thousands can think for one who can see.
To see clearly is poetry, prophecy, and religion ? all in one." | |
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Found in the topic Poetry.
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| "Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most
useless; peacocks and lilies, for instance." | |
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Found in the topic Beauty.
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| "Modern traveling is not traveling at all; it is merely Being sent to
a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel." | |
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Found in the topic Railroad.
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| "To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of
education." | |
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Found in the topic Capable.
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| "Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become. Your
vision is the promise of what you shall at last unveil." | |
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Found in the topic Dream.
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| "In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes." | |
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Found in the topic Mistake.
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| "Cheerfulness is as natural to the heart of a man in strong health as
color to his cheek; and wherever there is habitual gloom there must be
either bad air, unwholesome food, improperly severe labor, or erring
habits of life." | |
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Found in the topic Cheerful.
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| "The entire object of true education is to make people not merely do
the right things, but enjoy the right things ? not merely industrious, but
to love industry ? not merely learned, but to love knowledge ? not merely
pure, but to love purity ? not merely just, but to hunger and thirst after
justice." | |
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Found in the topic Education.
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| "Do not think of your faults, still less of others" faults; look for
what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off,
like dead leaves, when their time comes." | |
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Found in the topic Good.
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| "Of all the things you wear, your expression is the most
important." | |
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Found in the topic Clothes.
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| "You will find it less easy to uproot faults than to choke them by
gaining virtues. Do not think of your faults, still less of other"s
faults. In every person who comes near you look for what is good and
strong; honor that; try to imitate it, and your faults will drop off like
dead leaves when their time comes." | |
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Found in the topic Fault.
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| "Every great man is always being helped by everybody, for his gift is
to get good out of all things and all persons." | |
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Found in the topic Gift.
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| "No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a
fish." | |
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Found in the topic Fish.
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