The fool sees naught but folly; and the madman only madness. Yesterday I asked a foolish man to count the fools among us. He laughed and said, "This is too hard a thing to do, and it will take too long. Were it not better to count only the wise?"

The eye of a human being is a microscope, which makes the world seem bigger than it really is.

When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose.

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

...unless the exchange be in love and kindly justice, it will but lead some to greed and others to hunger.

Life is but a sleep disturbed by dreaming, prompted by the will; the saddened soul with sadness hides it's secrets, and the gay, with thrill.