Treat people the way they are and they will stay that way. Treat people the way they can become and they will become that way.

National literature does not mean much these days; now is the age of world literature, and every one must contribute to hasten thearrival of that age.

The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves, too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never have otherwise occurred...unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamed would have come his way.

The man who acts never has any conscience; no one has any conscience but the man who thinks

And those whom once my song had cheered and gladdened, If still they live, rove through the world now saddened.

Art is long, life short, judgment difficult, opportunity transient. To act is easy, to think is hard; to act according to our thought is troublesome. Every beginning is cheerful: the threshold is the place of expectation.

One does not get to know that one exists until one rediscovers oneself in others.