Wisdom never kicks at the iron walls it can't bring down.
There are only two things that are absolute realities, love and knowledge, and you can't escape them.
There is nothing ridiculous in love.
We bear the world and we make it.... There was never a great man who had not a great mother-it is hardly an exaggeration.
The surest sign of fitness is success.
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.
No good work is ever done while the heart is hot and anxious and fretted.
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.
How hard it is to make your thoughts look anything but imbecile fools when you paint them with ink on paper.
Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.
Our fathers had their dreams; we have ours; the generation that follows will have its own. Without dreams and phantoms man cannot exist.
