Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice.

If I go to the National Gallery and I look at one of the great paintings that excite me there, it's not so much the painting that excites me as that the painting unlocks all kinds of valves of sensation within me which return me to life more violently.

Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand - and melting like a snowflake.

Come home to men's business and bosoms.

The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.

Money is like muck, not good unless spread.

Men suppose their reason has command over their words; still it happens that words in return exercise authority on reason