Be lord of a day, through wisdom and justice, and you can put up your history books.

Every genuine work of art has as much reason for being as the earth and the sun.

Everything good is on the highway.

For, rightly, every man is a channel through which heaven floweth, and, whilst I fancied I was criticising him, I was censuring orrather terminating my own soul.

Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.

Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.

We love flattery, even though we are not deceived by it, because it shows that we are of importance enough to be courted.