I wish the crowd to feel itself well treated, Especially since it lives and lets me live.

We must be young to do great things.

A rainbow which lasts for a quarter of an hour is looked at no longer.

When intelligent and sensible people despise knowledge in their old age, it is only because they have asked too much of it and of themselves.

There are but few who have ideas and are, at the same time, capable of action. Ideas enlarge but stymie, action enlivens but confines.

The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace.

The worst is that the very hardest thinking will not bring thoughts. They must come like good children of God and cry, "Here we are." You expend effort and energy thinking hard. Then, after you have given up, they come sauntering in with their hands in their pockets. If the effort had not been made to open the door, however, who knows when they could have come.