Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair.
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.
Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.
For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.
Whatever you fear most has no power - it is your fear that has the power.