The optimism of a healthy mind is indefatigable.
When an actor has money, he doesn't send letters but telegrams.
It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.
It is often easier to fight for principles than to live up to them.
The future is a great land.
When men are rightly occupied, their amusement grows out of their work, as the color-petals out of a fruitful flower.
To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.
The family is the building block for whatever solidarity there is in society.
I have an inward treasure born within me, which can keep me alive if all the extraneous delights should be withheld; or offered only at a price I cannot afford.
Who would not rather trust and be deceived?
The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge.
There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it.
The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.
I wanted to marry her when I saw the moonlight shining on the barrel of her father's shotgun.
So great was my joy in God that I took no heed of looking at the angels and the saints, because all their goodness and all their beauty was from Him and in Him.
Science may have found a cure for most evils: but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.
There is something in me-I just can't stand to admit defeat.
We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand ... and melting like a snowflake. Let us use it before it is too late.
Death is terrible to Cicero, desirable to Cato, and indifferent to Socrates.