Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.
There is no respect for others without humility in one's self.
Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.
Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts.
Society lives by faith, and develops by science.
Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.
In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties.
The man who has no inner-life is a slave to his surroundings.
Everything you need for better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you have to do is go to the library.
Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.
Any landscape is a condition of the spirit.
It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing that we look, by writing that we think, by pumping that we draw water into the well.
Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.
The best path through life is the highway.
To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark of talent. To do what is impossible for talent is the mark of genius.
Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore; not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.
True humility is contentment.
Tell me what you feel in your room when the full moon is shining in upon you and your lamp is dying out, and I will tell you how old you are, and I shall know if you are happy.
Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one's liberty.
The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret.
