A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.

Death be not proud, though some have called thee<br>Mighty and dreadfull, for thou art not so,<br>For, those, whom thou thinkst, thou dost overthrow,<br> die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

There is no being of any race who, if he finds the proper guide, cannot attain to virtue.

Beauty is truth, truth beauty. That is all ye know, and all ye need to know.

The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear. And the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.

Until you can measure something and express it in numbers, you have only the begining of understanding.

The world is full of suffering but it is also full of people overcoming it.

Language is the picture and counterpart of thought.

Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.

In human relations a little language goes farther than a little of almost anything else. Whereas one language now often makes a wall, two can make a gate.