Think'st thou there is no tyranny but that Of blood and chains? The despotism of vice-- The weakness and the wickedness of luxury-- The negligence--the apathy--the evils Of sensual sloth--produces ten thousand tyrants, Whose delegated cruelty surpasses The worst acts of one energetic master, However harsh and hard in his own bearing.

Truth is often attended with danger.

Anyone who says you can't see a thought simply doesn't know art.

Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn't always have to be their top priority.

I never remember feeling tired by work, though idleness exhausts me completely.

All lovely things will have an ending, All lovely things will fade and die; And youth, that's now so bravely spending, Will beg a penny by and by.

Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.

He that can have patience can have what he will.

There is no real teacher who in practice does not believe in the existence of the soul, or in a magic that acts on it through speech.

A celebrity is someone who works hard all his life to become known and then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognised.

Still you keep o' the windy side of the law. -Twelfth Night. Act iii. Sc. 4.

To me faith means not worrying.

Between two stools one sits on the ground. [Fr., S'asseoir entre deux selles le cul a terre.]

Let us have faith that Right makes Might, and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it.

The Autumn wood the aster knows, The empty nest, the wind that grieves, The sunlight breaking thro' the shade, The squirrel chattering overhead, The timid rabbits lighter tread Among the rustling leaves.

If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.

Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.

How joyously the young sea-mew Lay dreaming on the waters blue, Whereon our little bark had thrown A little shade, the only one; But shadows ever man pursue.

In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia.

Wisdom and goodness are twin-born, one heart Must hold both sisters, never seen apart.