"All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions."
Wisdom
"Those that build them again are gay."
Happiness
"I can make the truth, but I cannot make the people believe it."
Truth
"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind."
Knowledge
"Too much of anything is bad, but too much good whiskey is barely enough."
Humor
"A line will take us hours maybe; yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, our stitching and unstitching has been naught."
Art
"Man can embody truth, but he cannot know it."
Truth
"I wish for the cloths of heaven to fall upon your roads."
Hope
"Take hope, for evil days do not last forever."
Perseverance
"The poet is a light and winged thing."
Creativity
"All knowledge that the world has ever gained has come from trial and error."
Education
"The world is not moved by the mighty force of the multitude, but by the irresistible power of ideas."
Inspiration
"I measure all the world by the impact it has on me."
Philosophy
"Those masterful images because complete grew in pure mind, but out of what began?"
Imagination
"Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric."
Courage
"The body is not washed in the waters, the heart is purified in solitude."
Solitude
"I have had the happiness of most men; I have had a wonderful destiny."
Gratitude
"Great harps and spears lie along the walls."
Nature
"The world's great age begins anew."
Hope
"Love is talking to someone whose children will hate them."
Love
"The beautiful cannot stand in a place where there is falsehood."
Beauty
"Whatever flames upon the night, man's own resinous heart has fed."
Creativity
"The work of art is above all a vehicle of thought."
Art
"There is one thing that matters—to set a chime of words tingling in the minds of men."
Literature
"I too await the hour when the second coming is at hand."
Faith
"Why should we desire the gods when we have the spirit of the place?"
Peace
"To me the difference between a genius and an ordinary man is not so much in intellectual power as in imagination."
Imagination
"A man wins friends by his manner, not by his opinions."
Friendship
"The happiness that could be had must be fought for."
Success
"Cast a cold eye on life, on death."
Death