“As for begging, it is safer to beg than to take, but it is finer to take than to beg.”

“There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.”

“Separation isn't time or distance
it's the bridge between us
finer than silk thread sharper than swords”

“Nothing is finer for the purposes of great productions than a very gradual ripening of the intellectual powers.”

“I don't believe there is any finer mission on earth than just to make people laugh.”

“Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.”

“No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.”

“There is no finer revenge than that which others inflict on your enemy. Moreover, it has the advantage of leaving you the role of a generous man.”

“His poems, even in English, seem to me finer than anything currently being written by any English or American poet.”

“On grounds of sheer character formation, the patient endurance of pain brings out in a man ( that enhance and ennoble his character. There is no finer man than a man who 'can take ft'J self-sacrificing care of invalids, of the sick, of the aged, is one of the most refining factors in the\ realm of human experience. Thoroughbreds don't cry and pain can be a blessed thing”