 Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains. |
| Love is the only game that is not called on account of darkness. Topics: Love Is |
| History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion. |
| Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together. |
| The true university of these days is a collection of books. |
| Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation. |
| Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man. |
| The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. |
| Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with. |
| All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books. |
| When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent. |
| Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness. |
| Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct. |
| I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom. |
| To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes. |
| Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die. |
| A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy. |
| Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith. |
| Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do. |
| Silence is more eloquent than words. |
