To be great is to be misunderstood. Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh.

Knowledge is the antidote to fear.

We dare not trust our wit for making our house pleasant for our friend, so we buy ice cream.

The louder he talked on his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.

Take egotism out and you would castrate the benefactors.

Every artist was at first an amateur.

Character is that which can do without success.

A great part of courage is the courage of having done it before.

What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.

Make yourself necessary to somebody. Do not make life hard to any.