“Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.”
“Every man desires to live long, but no man would be old.”
“A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.”
“We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.”
“He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.”
“May you live every day of your life.”
“Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.”
“Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.”
“When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign: that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.”
“A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.”
“What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.”
“He who would travel happily must travel light.”
“Language is the source of misunderstandings.”
“It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.”
“Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves.”
“What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.”
“Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”
“Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.”
“It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
“Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.”