I don't run away from a challenge because I am afraid. Instead I run toward it because the only way to escape fear is to trample it beneath your feet.
To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where...
A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.
One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible...
We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization but this is not...
Wisdom is a sacred communion.
A war between Europeans is a civil war.
To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful.
We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the...
Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.
There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world and that is an...
Nothing else in the world... not all the armies... is so powerful as an idea...
An invasion of armies can be resisted but not an idea whose time has come.
Short as life is we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.
People do not lack strength they lack will.
Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above...
Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.
Jesus wept Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile...
I'm religiously opposed to religion.
All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
Rhyme that enslaved queen that supreme charm of our poetry that creator of...
The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ it...
Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.
As a means of contrast with the sublime the grotesque is in our view the...
Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond and...
Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be...
He who every morning plans the transactions of the day and follows that...
Men become accustomed to poison by degrees.
Men like me are impossible until the day when they become necessary.
Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war...
The mountains the forest and the sea render men savage they develop the...
I love all men who think even those who think otherwise than myself.
Adversity makes men and prosperity makes monsters.
Love is a portion of the soul itself and it is of the same nature as the...
The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity in a girl boldness.
There are fathers who do not love their children there is no grandfather who...
I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old...
