Most crimes are sanctioned in some form or other when they take grand names.
Imagination without culture is crippled and moves slowly; but it can be pure imagination, and rich also, as folk-lore will tell the vainest.
Take hope from the heart of man, and you make him a beast of prey.
The heart of silver falls ever into the hands of brass. The sensitive herb is eaten as grass by the swine.
One must pray first, but afterwards one must help oneself. God does not care for cowards.
The fire of true enthusiasm is like the fires of Baku, which no water can ever quench, and which burn steadily on from night to day, and year to year, because their well-spring is eternal.