An eight-mile drive over rain-washed Irish roads in the quick-falling dusk of autumn is an experience trying to the patience, even to the temper, of the average Saxon.

Florence - the city of tranquillity made manifest.

A good horse is the best company in the world.

Light love is desire of pleasure; great love is fear of being alone.

To give! To give without hope of recompense, without question, without fear! That was the message of life.

Most prisons have wide gates!

No weapons are more potent than brevity and simplicity.

Failure may be cruel, but success is crueller still. The gods are usurers, you know; they lend to mortals, but they exact a desperate interest.

Nobody is such an individualist as the man who advocates equality.

We have all of us the two natures - the brother and the sister! Not one of us is quite woman - not one of us is all man!

It is sacrilege to attempt analysis of birth or love or death. Death and birth, the mysteries! Love, the revelation!

I feel like a failure." The expression comes so naturally that we forget it is a figure of speech: the language of business applied to the soul.

Time is an avid gambler who has no need to cheat to win every time.

All things are bound together. All things connect.

What we must understand is that the industries, processes, and inventions created by modern science can be used either to subjugate or liberate. The choice is up to us.

Man is my brother, and I am nearer related to him through his vices than I am through his virtue.

The world won't step into its greatness until we step into ours.

It's difficult isn't it, when you're in a Mosque and everyone's praying and you really enjoy leapfrog.

There is no detraction worse than to overpraise a man, for if his worth proves short of what report doth speak of him, his own actions are ever giving the lie to his honor.

New York has magnificent eating available, both in restaurants and in the materials available to home cooks in the many specialty markets.

When away from home always be like the kind of man you would care to take into your own home.