The man who does not know other languages, unless he is a man of genius, necessarily has deficiencies in his ideas.
The beautiful has but one type, the ugly has a thousand.
To think of shadows is a serious thing.
Sublime upon sublime scarcely presents a contrast, and we need a little rest from everything, even the beautiful.
Strange to say, the luminous world is the invisible world; the luminous world is that which we do not see. Our eyes of flesh see only night.
The little people must be sacred to the big ones, and it is from the rights of the weak that the duty of the strong is comprised.
There are thoughts which are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the posture of the body, the soul is on its knees.
A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.
To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.
The wise man does not grow old, but ripens.
Evil. Mistrust those who rejoice at it even more than those who do it.
The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant.
No one ever keeps a secret so well as a child.
Those who live are those who fight.
Do not let it be your aim to be something, but to be someone.
The learned man knows that he is ignorant.
A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it.
Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.
Puns are the droppings of soaring wits.
No one can keep a secret better than a child.
Genius: the superhuman in man.
