When a man is old enough to do wrong he should be old enough to do right also.

Indifference is the revenge the world takes on mediocrities.

I am but too conscious of the fact that we are born in an age when only the dull are treated seriously, and I live in terror of not being misunderstood. Don't degrade me into the position of giving you useful information. Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

In war," answered the weaver, "the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich make slaves of the poor. We must work to live, and they give us such mean wages that we die. We toil for them all day long, and they heap up gold in their coffers, and our children fade away before their time, and the faces of those we love become hard and evil. We tread out the grapes, another drinks the wine. We sow the corn, and our own board is empty. We have chains, though no eye beholds them; and are slaves, though men call us free.

I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.

It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things.

The birds that were singing in the dew-drenched garden seemed to be telling the flowers about her.