Ex oriente lux may still be the motto of scholars, for the Western world has not yet derived from the East all the light which itis destined to receive thence.
We inspire friendship in men when we have contracted friendship with the gods.
Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.
A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.
We do not ride on the railroad; it rides upon us.
If the day and night are such that you greet them with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs, is more elastic, more starry, more immortal - that is your success.