“Light is the symbol of truth.”
“Sorrow is the great idealizer.”
“A sneer is the weapon of the weak.”
“Not failure, but low aim, is crime.”
“The eye is the notebook of the poet.”
“Endurance is the crowning quality...”
“The idol is the measure of the worshipper.”
“Freedom is the only law which genius knows.”
“Folks never understand the folks they hate.”
“He mastered whatever was not worth the knowing.”
“The surest plan to make a man is, think him so.”
“Such power there is in clear-eyed self-restraint.”
“I don't believe in principle, but I do in interest.”
“The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.”
“A wise skepticism is the first attribute of a good critic.”
“The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.”
“Democracy give every man the right to be his own oppressor.”
“Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave.”
“Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.”
“If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon.”
“They are slaves who fear to speak, for the fallen and the weak.”
“One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.”
“Every person born into this world their work is born with them.”
“The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.”
“In the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking.”
“Incredulity robs us of many pleasures, and gives us nothing in return.”
“There are two kinds of weakness, that which breaks and that which bends.”
“What a sense of security in an old book which time has criticized for us.”
“Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.”
“To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.”