When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline.
Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong.
Friendships are discovered rather than made.
Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.
Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.
The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.
So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women.
All places where women are excluded tend downward to barbarism; but the moment she is introduced, there come in with her courtesy, cleanliness, sobriety, and order.
Air mata paling pahit yang ditumpahkan di atas kuburan adalah untuk kata-kata yang tidak terucapkan dan perbuatan yang tidak dilakukan.
To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably.
Everyone confesses that exertion which brings out all the powers of body and mind is the best thing for us; but most people do all they can to get rid of it, and as a general rule nobody does much more than circumstances drive them to do.
To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably.
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
Human nature is above all things lazy.
Jangan menyerah dulu, sebab ada tempat dan saatnya arus akan berbalik arah.
No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man.
One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me.