My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him.
To know nothing is the happiest life.
One must always hope when one is desperate, and doubt when one hopes.
Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.
Courage is grace under pressure.
Love is the greatest refreshment in life.
Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.
Nowadays the rage for possession has got to such a pitch that there is nothing in the realm of nature, whether sacred or profane, out of which profit cannot be squeezed.
Life's Tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late.
Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
For women's tears are but the sweat of eyes.
Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.
Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?
The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, which hurts and is desired.
Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.
Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness nothing but faith, faith and freedom.
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.
Art is the proper task of life.
The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow there is no humor in Heaven.
Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.
A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
Democracy... is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.
Life every man holds dear but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.
Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.
Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.
Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.
It's a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.
Few people have the imagination for reality.
By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality.
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