Pride is never so loud as when in chains.

If thou dost think of me again, O tribune, let it not be lost in thy mind that I prayed thee only for word of my people – mother, sister.

For to-day I take or give; For to-day I drink and live; For to-day I beg or borrow; Who knows about the silent morrow?

For power, you know, is a fretful thing, and hath its wings always spread for flight.

In every four there is one the slowest, and one the swiftest; and while the race is always to the slowest, the trouble is always with the swiftest.

From the depths of the well I had discovered a light above, and yearned to go up and see what all it shone upon. At last–ah, with what years of toil!–I stood in the perfect...

Everyone has known this condition of mind, though perhaps not all in the same degree; everyone will recognise it as the condition in which he has done brave things with apparent serenity; and everyone reading...

The happiness of love is in action; its test is what one is willing to do for others.

They to whom a boy comes asking, Who am I, and what am I to be? have need of ever so much care. Each word in answer may prove to the after-life what each finger-touch...

There is no law by which to determine the superiority of nations; hence the vanity of the claim, and the idleness of disputes about it. A people risen, run their race, and die either of...

I would have had to kill him, and Death, you know, keeps secrets better even than a guilty Roman.

They are like men: if bold, the better of scolding; if timid, the better of praise and flattery.

It was then I saw thy mother, and loved her, and took her away in my secret heart.

The architect had not stopped to bother about columns and porticos, proportions or interiors, or any limitation upon the epic he sought to materialize; he had simply made a servant of Nature – art can...

Death, you know, keeps secrets better even than a guilty Roman.

but which even the great do not sufficiently account, while with the herd it is a non-existent—the faculty of drawing men to my purpose and holding them faithfully to its achievement, by which, as against...

Men speak of dreaming as if it were a phenomenon of night and sleep. They should know better. All results achieved by us are self-promised, and all self-promises are made in dreams awake. Dreaming is...

He was angry; not as the irritable, from chafing of a trifle; nor was his anger like the fool’s, pumped from the wells of nothing, to be dissipated by a reproach or a curse; it...

The race was on; the souls of the racers were in it; over them bent the myriads.

It is neither wise nor honest to detract from beauty as a quality. There cannot be a refined soul insensible to its influence.

Youth is but the painted shell within which, continually growing, lives that wondrous thing the spirit of a man, biding its moment of apparition, earlier in some than in others.

We of the sea come to know each other quickly; our loves, like our hates, are born of sudden dangers.

Only those who have been wanderers long desolate can know the power there was in the latter appeal [Christianity].

The enemy of man is man, my brother.

It is more beautiful to trust in God. The beautiful in this world is all from his hand, declaring the perfection of taste; he is the author of all form; he clothes the lily, he...

he might have dealt tenderly at least with you. It is a hard, cruel nature which in youth can forget its first loves.

To begin a reform, go not into the places of the great and rich; go rather to those whose cups of happiness are empty–to the poor and humble.