Be saving, but not at the cost of all liberality. Have the soul of a king and the hand of a wise economist.

Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.

Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another.

The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things.

The evening of life brings with it its lamps.

He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.

Close your eyes and you will see.

Only when we learn to value the differences among us can we achieve the true spirit of humanity.

What is common becomes sense, but what is sensible doesn't always become common.

Prayer is not designed for the furnishing of God with the knowledge of what we need, but it is designed as a confession to him of our sense of need.

The whole point of view of the anarchist is that everything must start from the bottom up, from man. It seems to me so human a philosophy.

Every jackass going the roads thinks he has ideas.

No picture can be good which deceives by its imitation, for the very reason that nothing can be beautiful which is not true.

When we die, the money we can't keep, But we probably spend it all 'cause the pain ain't cheap...

I look down at our linked fingers as I loosen my grasp, but he regains his grip on me. “No, don’t let go of me,” he says.

I can’t stand these damn shows on museum walls with neat little frames, where you look at the images as if they were pieces of art. I want them to be pieces of life!