Always laugh when you can; it is cheap medicine. Merriment is a philosophy not well understood. It is the sunny side of existence.

There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.

Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.

When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall; And when Rome falls--the World.

The heart will break, but broken live on.

Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.

Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.

There are four questions of value in life, Don Octavio. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.

And gentle winds and waters near, make music to the lonely ear.

There is no instinct like that of the heart.

Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.

Trust your inner voice.

What I cannot tough, remains a memory, I am blinded by an imagined light. A remembrance of what can never be

Orgy-porgy, round and round and round, beating one another in six-eight time.

The story does what no theorem can quite do. It may not be "like real life" in the superficial sense: but it sets before us an image of what reality may well be like at some more central region.

Every revolution has its counterrevolution - that is a sign the revolution is for real.

As far as I have seen, at school...they aimed at blotting out one's individuality.

The moose is singularly grotesque and awkward to look at. Why should it stand so high at the shoulders? Why have so long a head? Why have no tail to speak of?

Genuine brokenness pleases God more than pretend spirituality.

Health is so necessary to all the duties, as well as pleasures of life, that the crime of squandering it is equal to the folly.

When we make a mistake, it becomes front-page news. We don't need any reporter telling us how badly we played.