“The soul helps the body, and at certain moments raises it. It is the only bird that sustains its cage.”

What makes night within us may leave stars.

Inspiration and genius – one and the same.

When the heart is dry the eye is dry.

Nobody knows like a woman how to say things that are both sweet and profound. Sweetness and depth, this is all of woman; this is Heaven.

He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.

If I speak, I am condemned. If I stay silent, I am damned!

The pupil dilates in darkness and in the end finds light, just as the soul dilates in misfortune and in the end finds God.

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart.

Love would never be a promise of a rose garden unless it is showered with light of faith, water of sincerity and air of passion.

There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.

We pardon to the extent that we love.

Knowledge is a weight added to conscience.

When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.

Let us study things that are no more. It is necessary to understand them, if only to avoid them.

Men hate those to whom they have to lie.

Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds.

With empty hand no man can lure a hawk.

With empty hands men may no hauks lure.

The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.

You can make even a parrot into a learned political economist – all he must learn are the two words “supply” and “demand.”

If the Great Spirit had desired me to be a white man he would have made me so in the first place. He put in your heart certain wishes and plans, and in my heart he put other and different desires. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows.

A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.

May my heart always be open to little birds, who are the secrets of living. Whatever they sing is better than to know. And if men should not hear them – then men are old.