You acquire a language most readily in the country where it is spoken; you study mineralogy best among miners; and so with everything else.

Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.

One is never satisfied with the portrait of a person that one knows.

I always seek the good that is in people and leave the bad to Him who made mankind and knows how to round off the corners.

Nothing should be valued higher than the value of the day.

The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.

As long as you don't practice it, this dying and becoming, You are only a dreary guest on this dark earth.