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

Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.

Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living.

But woe to him, who left to moan, Reviews the hours of brightness gone.

I think over again my small adventures, my fears, These small ones that seemed so big. For all the vital things I had to get and to reach. And yet there is only one great thing, The only thing. To live to see the great day that dawns And the light that fills the world.

My long sickness Of health and living now begins to mend, And nothing brings me all things.

If I publish this poem for you, speaking as a trader, I shall be a considerable loser. Did I publish all I admire, out of sympathy with the author, I should be a ruined man.

Money is the representative of a certain quantity of corn or other commodity. It is so much warmth, so much bread.

The husbands of very beautiful women belong to the criminal classes.

You must accept that you might fail; then, if you do your best and still don't win, at least you can be satisfied that you've tried. If you don't accept failure as a possibility, you don't set high goals, and you don't branch out, you don't try-you don't take the risk.

Like watermen who look astern while they row the boat ahead.

Love and dignity cannot share the same abode.

You know you've achieved perfection in design, Not when you have nothing more to add, But when you have nothing more to take away.

The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.

The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars.

The proper method for hastening the decay of error is ... by teaching every man to think for himself.

We have no more right to put our discordant states of mind into the lives of those around us and rob them of their sunshine and brightness than we have to enter their houses and steal their silverware.

No rock so hard but that a little wave may beat admission in a thousand years.

The sound must seem an echo to the sense.

The liberty of the press is a blessing when we are inclined to write against others, and a calamity when we find ourselves overborne by the multitude of our assailants.