In truth you owe naught to any man. You owe to all men.
A man's true wealth is the good he does in the world.
My loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues.
Inspiration will always sing; inspiration will never explain.
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?"
Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution.