Perhaps time’s definition of coal is the diamond.

A shy failure is nobler than an immodest success.

We are all prisoners but some of us are in cells with windows and some without.

Who are you that men should rend their bosom and unveil their pride, that you may see their worth naked and their pride unabashed? See first that you yourself deserve to be a giver, and an instrument of giving.

If I extend an empty hand and in retrieving it and finding it still empty, I feel disappointment, that is foolishness; yet if I extend a hand which is full and yet find no one to receive it, then that is hopelessness.

Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.

Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.