Poet

There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.

Kebaikan belum tentu dapat membuat manusia bahagia namun kebahagiaan dapat membuat mereka menjadi baik.

There is delight in singing, though none hear beside the singer.

Many laws as certainly make bad men, as bad men make many laws.

In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.

Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose.

Api amarah, cerah dan singkat, mempertajam duri cinta.

An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.

We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.

Kindness in ourselves is the honey that blunts the sting of unkindness in another.

Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.

My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.

Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame; A grave to rest in, and a fading name!

Truth, like the juice of the poppy, in small quantities, calms men; in larger, heats and irritates them, and is attended by fatal consequences in excess.

Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.

Delay in justice is injustice.

Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked.

Consult duty not events.

The wise become as the unwise in the enchanted chambers of Power, whose lamps make every face the same colour.

A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.