“To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.”
“Nine-tenths of education is encouragement.”
“If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.”
“It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.”
“The future is hidden even from those who make it.”
“Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.”
“The average man does not know what to do with his life, yet wants another one which will last forever.”
“All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy.”
“Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.”
“To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.”
“Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.”
“Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.”
“The finest words in the world are only vain sounds if you cannot understand them.”
“A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.”
“The books that everyone admires are those that no one reads.”
“A lie is an abomination unto the Lord and a very present help in time of trouble.”
“We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we yearn for another that will be eternal.”
“It is human nature to think wisely and to act foolishly.”
“We have never heard the devil’s side of the story, God wrote all the book.”
“An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind.”
“In art as in love, instinct is enough.”
“What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.”
“The poor have to work so hard that they cannot think.”
“A masterpiece of literature is nothing but a mirror in which the reader sees his own features.”
“You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.”
“The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.”
“The art of teaching is tolerance. Humility is the art of learning.”
“Existence would be intolerable if we were never to dream.”
“We reproach people for talking about themselves; but it is the subject they treat best.”
“Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.”
“The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is everything.”
“The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges.”
“The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.”
“Justice is the means by which established injustices are sanctioned.”
“Of all the schools I attended, the school of life was the best.”
“No government ought to be without censors, and where the press is free, no one ever will.”
“It is better to understand little than to misunderstand a lot.”
“Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil.”
“Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; their acceptance of universal neuroses spares them the task of constructing a personal one.”
“An idea is a feat of association.”
“The wonderful thing about books is that they allow us to roam through time and space.”
“The dog is the only animal that has seen his god.”
“It is a beautiful tale, and well told; that is all.”
“The history books which contain no lies are extremely tedious.”
“It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.”
“Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal.”
“We do not know what we want, but we are ready to bite somebody to get it.”
“Happiness is achieved when the desires are satisfied without generating new desires.”
“We do not really live unless we have friends surrounding us.”
“Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.”