Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.
Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof.
Tyrants are but the spawn of Ignorance, Begotten by the slaves they trample on.
It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of the intelligence.
New conditions of life will stimulate thought and give new forms to its expression.
Life is a sheet of paper white / Whereon each one of us may write / His word or two, and then comes night.
The heart forgets its sorrow and ache.
Life is constantly weighing us in very sensitive scales, and telling every one of us precisely what his real weight is to the last grain of dust.
Most men make the voyage of life as if they carried sealed orders which they were not to open till they were fairly in mid-ocean.
The nurse of full-grown souls is solitude.
Stories now, to suit a public taste, must be half epigram, half pleasant vice.
Toward no crimes have men shown themselves so cold- bloodedly cruel as in punishing differences of belief.
Tyranny is always weakness
Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.
Light is the symbol of truth.
Stern men with empires in their brains.
A woman's love Is mighty, but a mother's heart is weak, And by its weakness overcomes.
Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed.
There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.
Reading enables us to see with the keenest eyes, to hear with the finest ears, and listen to the sweetest voices of all time.
For only by unlearning Wisdom comes.
Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.
True freedom is to share All the chains our brothers wear, And, with heart and hand, to be Earnest to make others free!
No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself.
It is by presence of mind in untried emergencies that the native metal of man is tested.
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