I see upon their noble brows the seal of the Lord, for they were born kings of the earth far more truly than those who possess it only from having bought it.

The most honest of men is the one who thinks and acts best, but the most powerful is the one who writes and speaks best.

The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.

He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.

Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it.

It seems to me that the earth belongs to God who made it and entrusted it to men as a perpetual home. But it cannot have been part of His plan that some men should be ill with overfeeding and that others should die of starvation. No matter what anyone can say they cannot prevent me from feeling sad and angry when I see a beggar crying at a rich man's door.

[Failure is hard initially because] One knows what one has lost, but not what one may find [and learn from that failure]!