The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.

Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.

If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.

The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.

The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.

Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time.

Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.

Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies. By dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed To have a passer-by kill the snake for the beads.

The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.

Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.

Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.

Music is the universal language of mankind.

The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.

A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.

There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret, Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.

Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.

Into each life some rain must fall.

A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.

One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.

Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh.

Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.

What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.

To love beauty is to see light.

Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.

The ideal and the beautiful are identical; the ideal corresponds to the idea, and beauty to form; hence idea and substance are cognate.

Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.

Liberation is not deliverance.

Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is room in heaven for all the stars.

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Toleration is the best religion.

I'm religiously opposed to religion.

Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

To love another person is to see the face of God.

To love is to act.

Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.

Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.

Death has its revelations: the great sorrows which open the heart open the mind as well; light comes to us with our grief. As for me, I have faith; I believe in a future life. How could I do otherwise? My daughter was a soul; I saw this soul. I touched it, so to speak.

Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.

There is nothing like a dream to create the future.

What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.

Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.

Many great actions are committed in small struggles.

Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander.