Thought is the labour of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.
There is one thing stronger that all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has come.
Thought is the labour of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.
A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.
An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.
Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.
There is nothing like dream to create the future. Utopia to-day, flesh and blood tomorrow.
No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.
The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved.
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
A compliment is like a kiss through a veil.
The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are lovedâloved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved.
Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.
I was always a lover of soft-winged things.
As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled.
The clouds,--the only birds that never sleep.
Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.
There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their number than the greatness of a man is determined by his height.
And the dream that our mind had sketched in haste Shall others continue, but never complete. For none upon earth can achieve his scheme; The best as the worst are futile here: We wake at the self-same point of the dream,-- All is here begun, and finished elsewhere.
King of the peak and glacier, King of the cold, white scalps, He lifts his head at that close tread, The eagle of the Alps.
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.