You can make even a parrot into a learned political economist - all he must learn are the two words "supply" and "demand."
History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.
No ghost was every seen by two pair of eyes.
Speech is too often not the art of concealing thought, but of quite stifling and suspending thought, so that there is none to conceal.
Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
The world is a thing that a man must learn to despise, and even to neglect, before he can learn to reverence it, and work in it and for it.
It's a man's sincerity and depth of vision that makes him a poet.
Man makes circumstances, and spiritually as well as economically, is the artificer of his own fortune.
The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.
Is not light grander than fire? It is the same element in a state of purity.
Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.
The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.
Of all your troubles, great and small, the greatest are the ones that don't happen at all.
Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.
Speak not at all, in any wise, till you have somewhat to speak; care not for the reward of your speaking, but simply and with undivided mind for the truth of your speaking.
When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.
No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
Intellect is the soul of man, the only immortal part of him.
Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will.
Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
Let each become all that he was created capable of being.
The crash of the whole solar and stellar systems could only kill you once.
See deep enough, and you see musically.
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