"Respect is worthless where it cannot be lost."
Truth
"Those who have much are often greedy; those who have little often share."
Kindness
"I never was attached to that great sect whose doctrine is that each one should paddle his own canoe."
Relationships
"The soul's joy lies in doing."
Work
"Civilization is not inherited; it has to be learned and earned."
Education
"We are the masters of our own actions, not the slaves of fate."
Power
"Nature, with its wonders infinite, provides material for all arts."
Nature
"The deadliest errors are the best-feathered and most plausible."
Philosophy
"Tomorrow, if the storm does not kill us, we will be happy."
Hope
"I love the people; but I hate the institutions which they have built."
Politics
"The past is a bucket of ashes; tomorrow is all that is worth living for."
Change
"All things exist as they are perceived."
Knowledge
"Good propagates itself, and knowledge flows in like a flood."
Inspiration
"War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade."
War
"Kings and priests have always drenched the world with blood and tears."
Justice
"Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age."
Wisdom
"To forgive is the highest form of self-interest."
"The best minds of every generation have to discover the world anew."
Creativity
"Belief is not knowledge; they differ as day and night."
Truth
"We live and die; but the beautiful lives forever."
Beauty
"The laws of friendship are austere and eternal, of a higher order than those which regulate worldly connexions."
Friendship
"Do you think that the hours of pleasure are not worth the hours of pain?"
Happiness
"The degree to which we are able to renew ourselves is the measure of our power."
Perseverance
"Language is a perpetual creation."
Art
"The great wits among mankind appear, to their contemporaries, as fools."
Philosophy
"From the perspective of time, all passions seem equally mad."
Solitude
"The world is made mad by power, not knowledge."
Power
"Music is the harmonious voice of creation; an echo of the invisible world."
Music
"Obedience is the death of genius."
Freedom
"The most terrible of all illusions is that it is possible to give oneself to one cause without giving oneself wholly."