Children, savages and true believers remember far less what they have seen than what they have heard.

The Renaissance was a time of mercenary soldiers, ours is a time of mercenary labor.

Help your sister's boat across the water, and yours too will reach the other side. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.

There is sublime thieving in all giving. Someone gives us all he has and we are his.

Men of thought seldom work well together, whereas between men of action there is usually an easy camaraderie.

There is probably nothing more sublime than discontent transmuted into a work of art, a scientific discovery, and so on.

To be fully alive is to feel that everything is possible.