Inspirational Sayings

Peace if possible, truth at all costs.

He who practices truth, contentment, and compassion, he alone is a true Yogi.

I do not hope for any relief, and that is because I have committed no crime.

The Universe has been wrought for us by a supremely good and orderly Creator.

The Creator's wisdom is seen in the smallest insect as well as in the greatest elephant.

The greatest art is to conceal art.

Lawyers! I have but two in my dominions, and I believe that I shall hang one of them the moment I get home!

I don't think that human strength is capable of everything, least of all mine.

The greater part of the world, because it despises the Word of God, despises also the whole of true religion.

I do not believe that there is any woman in the world who has an equal share of both understanding and grace with my sister Martha.

Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.

I am a Christian. I believe in the Trinity.

Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

The art of concluding from experience and observation consists in evaluating probabilities.

The most beautiful part of the human frame is the eye; and yet it is the most liable to disease.

The universe is far more complex and wondrous than we can imagine.

I have ever esteemed it a part of my duty to make the world acquainted with what I have done.

I envy the poet. He is encouraged toward drunkenness and wallows with nubile wenches while the painter must endure wretchedness and pain for his art.

No punishment, in my opinion, is too great for the man who can build his greatness upon his country's ruin.