Don't be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams.

Every novel is a debtor to Homer.

The exceptional life depends not on working harder, but on different, even opposite, actions from habit and the crowd.

I suppose an entire cabinet of shells would be an expression of the whole human mind; a Flora of the whole globe would be so likewise, or a history of beasts; or a painting of all the aspects of the clouds. Everything is significant.

You cannot give anything to a magnanimous person. After you have served him, he at once puts you in debt by his magnanimity.

Hospitality consists in a little fire, a little food, and an immense quiet

Democracy is morose, and runs to anarchy, but in the state, and in the schools, it is indispensable to resist the consolidation ofall men into a few men.