The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship.
After an existence of nearly twenty years of almost innocuous desuetude these laws are brought forth.
What is buried in the past of one generation falls to the next to claim.
I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
Man loves little and often, woman much and rarely.
A doctor can bury his mistakes, but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
The first sigh of love is the last of wisdom.
I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it without knowing what's going to happen next.
It is not my ability, but my response to God's ability, that counts.
I read part of it all the way through.
Money is like muck - not good unless it be spread.
Every chain that spirits wear crumbles in the breadth of prayer.
The Americans are our best friends - whether we like it or not.
The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it.
The universe would not be rich enough to buy the vote of an honest man.
Young men think old men fools and old men know young men to be so.
Danger can never by overcome without taking risks.
A woman's hopes are woven of sunbeams; a shadow annihilates them.