Great Throughts Treasury

"At times, although one is perfectly in the right, one's legs tremble; at other times, although one is completely in the wrong, birds sing in one's soul."

"We do not live in accordance with our mode of thinking, but we think in accordance with our mode of loving."

"In the "social order: one is the worker, and nine are idlers."

"Look everywhere with your eyes; but with your soul never look at many things, but at one."

"Fame is the beginning of the fall of greatness."

"All religions will pass, but this will remain: simply sitting in a chair and looking in the distance."