Those who do not weep, do not see.
What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!
Emergencies have always been necessary to progress. It was darkness which produced the lamp. It was fog that produced the compass. It was hunger that drove us to exploration. And it took a depression to teach us the real value of a job.
The quantity of civilization is measured by the quality of imagination.
To die is nothing; but it is terrible not to live.
Popularity? It is glory's small change.
Nothing discernable to the eye of the spirit is more brilliant or obscure than man; nothing is more formidible, complex, mysterious, and infinite. There is a prospect greater than the sea, and it is the sky; there is a prospect greater than the sky, and it is the human soul.
A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labour and there is invisible labour.
Do you know what friendship is... it is to be brother and sister; two souls which touch without mingling, two fingers on one hand.
Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.