When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.

It is too late to be studying Hebrew; it is more important to understand even the slang of today.

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.

We shall see but a little way if we require to understand what we see.

Do what nobody else can do for you. Omit to do anything else.

The bluebird carries the sky on his back.

Books can only reveal us to ourselves, and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside.

It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?

Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years.