Whether outwardly or inwardly$$$ whether in space or time$$$ the farther we penetrate the unknown$$$ the vaster and more marvelous it becomes.

There are no bad pictures; that's just how your face looks sometimes.

If you would win a man to your cause$$$ first convince him that you are his sincere friend.

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition... I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men$$$ by rendering myself worthy of their esteem.

Many great writers address audiences who do not exist; to address passionately and sometimes with very great wisdom people who do not exist has this advantage: that there will always be a group of people who$$$ seeing a man shouting apparently at somebody or other$$$ and seeing nobody else in sight$$$ will think it is they who are being addressed.

It is my opinion that a story worth reading only in childhood is not worth reading even then.

We need not despair even in our worst$$$ for our failures are forgiven. The only fatal thing is to sit down content with anything less than perfection.

We make men without chests and expect from them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst.

Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness.

When the hunter sets traps only for rabbits$$$ tigers and dragons are left uncaught.