If you wish to make a man look noble, your best course is to kill him. What superiority he may have inherited from his race, what superiority nature may have personally gifted him with, comes out in death.

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A man doesn't plant a tree for himself. He plants it for posterity.

A man doesn't plant a tree for himself. He plants it for posterity.

If you do your fair day's work, you are certain to get your fair day's...

If you do your fair day's work, you are certain to get your fair day's...

A man gazing on the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles in...

A man gazing on the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles in...

To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for.

To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for.

The man who in this world can keep the whiteness of his soul is not...

The man who in this world can keep the whiteness of his soul is not...

We bury love; Forgetfulness grows over it like grass: That is a thing to weep...

We bury love; Forgetfulness grows over it like grass: That is a thing to weep...

The world is not so much in need of new thoughts as that when thought...

The world is not so much in need of new thoughts as that when thought...

We bury love; Forgetfulness grows over it like grass: That is a thing to weep...

We bury love; Forgetfulness grows over it like grass: That is a thing to weep...

A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing...

A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing...

The saddest thing that befalls a soul Is when it loses faith in God and...

The saddest thing that befalls a soul Is when it loses faith in God and...

To sit for one's portrait is like being present at one's own creation.

To sit for one's portrait is like being present at one's own creation.

A great man is the man who does something for the first time.

A great man is the man who does something for the first time.

If the egotist is weak, his egotism is worthless. If the egotist is strong, acute,...

If the egotist is weak, his egotism is worthless. If the egotist is strong, acute,...

Every man's road in life is marked by the graves of his personal liking.

Every man's road in life is marked by the graves of his personal liking.

I go into my library and all history unrolls before me.

I go into my library and all history unrolls before me.

Books are a finer world within the world.

Books are a finer world within the world.

A great man is the man who does something for the first time.

A great man is the man who does something for the first time.

All time management begins with planning.

All time management begins with planning.

Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this,...

Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this,...

The past is but the past of a beginning.

The past is but the past of a beginning.