“Truth suffers no loss if a vehement youth fails in finding it, in the same way that virtue and religion suffer no detriment if a criminal denies them.”

In the case of a creative mind, it seems to me, the intellect has withdrawn its watchers from the gates, and the ideas rush in pell-mell and only then does it review and inspect the multitudes.

Speech is always bolder than action.

Uncommon men require no common trust; give him but scope and he will set the bounds.

A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished.

Joy is the mainspring in the whole Of endless Nature’s calm rotation. Joy moves the dazzling wheels that roll In the great Time-piece of Creation.

The world’s history is the world’s judgment.

It is play and only play that makes man complete.

I am better than my reputation.

One can give advice comfortably from a safe port.

Live with your century; but do not be its creature.

Posterity weaves no garlands for imitators.

A healthy nature needs no God or immortality.

Only through Beauty’s morning-gate, dost thou penetrate the land of knowledge.

Time is a blooming field: nature is ever teeming with life: and all is seed, and all is fruit.

The May of life blooms once and never again.

In the ardor of pursuit men soon forget the goal from which they start.

I believe all woman look good in dresses; is that a crime?

Trolling is a cyber-crime, and if you are caught for it, you cannot run away by saying that it is your opinion.

I have wasted my time, your love is gone so fast. Such a pity, a crime. But now it’s in the past.

People who do crime do it for reward. But you end up in jail – that’s no reward. Through crime, your ambitions are low.

To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.

I finally faced the fact that it isn’t a crime not having friends. Being alone means you have fewer problems.

The blood of man should never be shed but to redeem the blood of man. It is well shed for our family, for our friends, for our God, for our country, for our kind. The rest is vanity; the rest is crime.

In a closed society where everybody’s guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.