It's not well to see everything, to hear everything; let many causes of offense pass by us unnoticed.

We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.

When elephants fight, ants get killed.

It isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.

True success, true wealth, does not come out of the barrel of a gun.

I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.

How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy.

Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.

The lion doesn't turn around when the small dog barks.

Being aware of a single shortcoming within yourself is far more useful than being aware of a thousand in someone else!

I have endured a great deal of ridicule without much malice; and have received a great deal of kindness, not quite free from ridicule. I am used to it.

I have yet to find a man, however exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism.

If we judge ourselves only by our aspirations and everyone else only their conduct we shall soon reach a very false conclusion.

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the door.

I must be a mermaid, I have no fear of depths, and a great fear of shallow living.

There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.

You will never be able to escape from your heart. So it is better to listen to what it has to say.

We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.

Our life does not develop as a result of chance, but as a result of causes.

There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud.

Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything.

Beauty perishes in life, but is immortal in art.

Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.