The very winds whispered in soothing accents, 

and maternal Nature bade me weep no more.

Poetry is the mother-tongue of the human race.

I love men, 

not for what unites them, 

but for what divides them, 

and I want to know most of all 

what gnaws at their hearts.

Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.

I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul.

One man's remorse is another man's reminiscence.

Beware the fury of a patient man.

When thinking about companions gone, 

we feel ourselves doubly alone.

Love has no age, 

no limit; 

and no death.

Men do not shape destiny, 

Destiny produces the man for the hour.

If you would be pungent, be brief; 

for it is with words as with sunbeams — 

the more they are condensed, 

the deeper they burn.

The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that 

he really is very good, 

in spite of all the people who say 

he is very good.

All human wisdom is summed up in two words: 

wait and hope.

The soul's joy lies in doing.

We cannot live only for ourselves. 

A thousand fibres connect us with our fellow men.

Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. 

We don't know because we don't want to know.