I don't pretend to understand the Universe - it's a great deal bigger than I am.

Thought, true labor of any kind, highest virtue itself, is it not the daughter of Pain?

In this world there is one godlike thing, the essence of all that was or ever will be of godlike in this world: the veneration done to Human Worth by the hearts of men.

One is weary of hearing about the omnipotence of money. I will say rather that, for a genuine man, it is not evil to be poor.

War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle.

In every object there is inexhaustible meaning; the eye sees in it what the eye brings means of seeing.

A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy.