Books should be tried by a judge and jury as though they were crimes.
He who foresees calamities suffers them twice over.
A good life fears not life, nor death.
Maid of Athens, ere we part, Give, oh, give me back my heart!
If I look like this, I need the trip.
Pride, avarice and envy are in every home.
No man does anything from a single motive.
We should have no regrets. ... The past is finished. There is nothing to be gained by going over it. Whatever it gave us in the experiences it brought us was something we had to know.
Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines, but it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes.
Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
Don't brood on what's past, but never forget it either.
Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.
The clock upbraids me with the waste of time.
Nature says to a woman: 'Be beautiful if you can, wise if you want to, but be respected, that is essential.'
Children are the world's most valuable resource and its best hope for the future.
We forget because we must And not because we will.
Never invest your money in anything that eats or needs repairing.
I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.
Every generation is a secret society and has incommunicable enthusiasm, tastes and interests which are a mystery both to its predecessor and to posterity.
Simple truths are a relief from grand speculations.