Art is an absolute mistress; she will not be coquetted with or slighted; she requires the most entire self-devotion, and she repays with grand triumphs.

All rising to great place is by a winding stair.

It is one of the greatest economic errors to put any limitation upon production.... We have not the power to produce more than there is a potential to consume.

Never apologize and never explain - it's a sign of weakness.

From hence, let fierce contending nations know, What dire effects from civil discord flow.

Fear is the foundation of most governments.

Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

You are today where your thoughts have brought you, you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.

I have reared a memorial more enduring than brass, and loftier than the regal structure of the pyramids, which neither the corroding shower nor the powerless north wind can destroy; no, not even unending years nor the flight of time itself. I shall not entirely die. The greater part of me shall escape oblivion.

There is a light that shines beyond all things on earth, beyond the highest, the very highest heavens. This is the light that shines in your heart -Chandogya Upanishad.

A tree that can fill the span of a man's arms grows from a downy tip; A terrace nine stories high rises from hodfuls of earth; A journey of a thousand miles starts from beneath one's feet.

Their meetings made December June. Their every parting was to die.

That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.

Thy voice sounds like a prophet's word; And in its hollow tones are heard The thanks of millions yet to be.

This is too much reality for a Friday.

My evil genius Procrastination has whispered me to tarry 'til a more convenient season.

The highest law gives a thing to him who can use it.

If there is a God, man's immortality is certain. If not, Immortality would not be worth having.

Language helps form the limits of our reality.

In friendship I early was taught to believe; . . . . I have found that a friend may profess, yet deceive.