“People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude.”

There is a certain pleasure in weeping.

A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man’s brow.

Anything cracked will shatter at a touch.

First appearance deceives many.

A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.

If you want to be loved, be lovable.

I grabbed a pile of dust, and holding it up, foolishly asked for as many birthdays as the grains of dust, I forgot to ask that they be years of youth.

Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.

Eurydice, dying now a second time, uttered no complaint against her husband. What was there to complain of, but that she had been loved?

The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.

Venus is kind to creatures as young as we; We know not what we do, and while we’re young We have the right to live and love like gods.

In the make-up of human beings, intelligence counts for more than our hands, and that is our true strength.

Enhance and intensify one’s vision of that synthesis of truth and beauty which is the highest and deepest reality.

Habits change into character.

Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion.

Take rest; a field that has rested gives a beautiful crop.

A creep is someone who claims he’s one thing but he’s actually another.

Anything and everything, the two almost the same–everything says, have it all; anything, one to claim.

It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men’s hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.

A place is a piece of the whole environment that has been claimed by feelings.

If what you are claiming is true, I would have shouted it from the rooftops.

Hitler had a plausible case to argue when he claimed that the Anschluss was only the application of the Wilsonian principle of self-determination.

My credibility is zero. My wife claims she can go before any judge at any time and have me committed.

I’m obviously not a rapper, and I don’t have any claims to be one, really.