You must get your living by loving, or at least half your life is a failure.

The Ethiopian cannot change his skin nor the leopard his spots.

It is remarkable that among all the preachers there are so few moral teachers. The prophets are employed in excusing the ways of men.

Thus men will lie on their backs, talking about the fall of man, and never make an effort to get up.

I wish my countrymen to consider that whatever the human law may be, neither an individual nor a nation can ever commit the leastact of injustice against the obscurest individual without having to pay the penalty for it. A government which deliberately enacts injustice, and persists in it, will at length even become the laughing-stock of the world.

In winter we lead a more inward life. Our hearts are warm and cheery, like cottages under drifts.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined...