Silence at the proper season is wisdom and better than any speech.
Painting is silent poetry and poetry is painting that speaks.
I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent than in the...
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
Medicine to produce health must examine disease and music to create harmony...
Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.
It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds though he risk...
The omission of good is no less reprehensible than the commission of evil.
It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such a one as is...
To make no mistakes is not in the power of man but from their errors and...
A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence but sets off...
Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.
Nobody I think ought to read poetry or look at pictures or statues who...
I remember a great America where we made everything. There was a time when...
A large part of acting is just pretending. You get to work with these other...
We should all aspire in life to do a multitude of things well - to be a great...
A great wind swept over the ghetto carrying away shame invisibility and...
A great book provides escapism for me. The artistry and the creativity in a...
Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at and humbled for...