Oh, happy he who still hopes he can emerge from Error’s boundless sea! – Faust.
A man who cannot command himself will always be a slave.
Why look for conspiracy when stupidity can explain so much.
Nothing is more odious than the majority, for it consists of a few powerful leaders, a certain number of accommodating scoundrels and submissive weaklings, and a mass of men who trot after them without thinking, or knowing their own minds.
Conscience is the virtue of the observers not the agents of action.
Writing is busy idleness.
Limitation of aims is the mother of wisdom and the secret of achievement.
The flowers are full of honey, but only the bee finds out the sweetness.
Solitude is fine when you are at peace with yourself and have something definite to do.
If all these devils really exist it proves there must be angels, too.
We’re really up against it, we poor women: A bachelor’s a hard thing to convert.
Children can scarcely be fashioned to meet with our likes and our purpose. Just as God did us give them, so must we hold them and love them, nurture and teach them to fullness and leave them to be what they are.
I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element. It is my personal approach that creates the climate.
If in the infinite you want to stride, Just walk in the finite to every side.
Plants and flowers of the commonest kind can form a pleasing diary, because nothing which calls back to us the remembrance of a happy moment can be insignificant.
Misunderstandings and neglect create more confusion in this world than trickery and malice. At any rate, the last two are certainly much less frequent.
True love is love that stays constant for ever, whatever it’s fortune; whether requited or scored, filled or sent empty away.
Don’t judge anyone harshly until you yourself have been through his experiences.
Where I cannot be moral, my power is gone.
A man is really alive only when he delights in the good-will of others.