Share the passion and action of your time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.
Just for a handful of silver he left us, Just for a ribbon to stick in his coat.
Faith is a kind of betting, or speculation.
And whether you're an honest man, or whether you're a thief, depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief.
What the heart gives away is never gone.... It is kept in the hearts of others.
Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.
Do you want a world with . . . more joy and happiness? Then find your own joy and happiness and contribute to the joy and happiness of others.
All progress is based upon a universal, innate desire on the part of every living organism to live beyond its income.
When any fit of gloominess, or perversion of mind, lays hold upon you, make it a rule not to publish it by complaints.
And they were offended in him. But Jesus said unto them," A prophet is not without honour, save in his own country, and in his own house."
From without, no wonderful effect is wrought within ourselves, unless some interior, responding wonder meets it.
Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it.
If you would lift me you must be on a higher ground.
I want every peasant to have a chicken in his pot on Sundays.
Wagner has lovely moments but awful quarters of an hour.
Life is my college. May I graduate well, and earn some honors!
If men are so wicked with religion, what would they be without it?
To the sick, while there is life there is hope.