The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.

We'd all like to vote for the best man but he's never a candidate.

One of the commonest ailments of the present day is the premature formation of opinion.

The hardest thing is to take less when you can get more.

If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.

No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage-ground of truth.

Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.

To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.

Science is but an image of the truth.

People prefer to believe what they want to be true.

Always let losers have their words.

The lame man who keeps the right road outstrips the runner who takes the wrong one.

A bad man is worse when he pretends to be a saint.

In one and the same fire, clay grows hard and wax melts.

There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.

Money is a great servant but a bad master.

In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.

It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself.