The full-grown modern human being ... is conscious of touching the highest pinnacle of fulfillment... when he is consumed in the service of an idea, in the conquest of the goal pursued.
Everything has to be taken on trust; truth is only that which is taken to be true. It's the currency of living. There may be nothing behind it, but it doesn't make any difference so long as it is honoured.
There are three signs of old age: loss of memory ... I forget the other two.
To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life, and this is a softness that ends in bitterness.
Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of the party.
Master, I marvel how the fishes live in the sea. Why, as men do a-land: the great ones eat up the little ones.
The happiest time in any man's life is when he is in red-hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.
So dear I love him, that with him all deaths I could endure, without him live no life.
God bless me and my son John, Me and my wife, him and his wife, Us four, and no more.
Even if we can't be happy, we must always be cheerful.
A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.
If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.
A perfect poem is impossible. Once it has been written, the world would end.
The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best you have to give.
Courage permits the caliber of performance to continue at its peak, until the finish line is crossed.
As perfume to the flower, so is kindness to speech.
You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on.
Everything comes if a man will only wait.