And yet without labour there were no ease, no rest, so much as conceivable.

Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist.

He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.

Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Endurance is patience concentrated.

I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom.

A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.

On getting lost in a book. Set adriftA life unknownConnections formLove is sewn

He who loves lies suffers from no disease than lies! He who believes in and acts upon lies suffers from no disease than ignorance!

What a terrible thing, I thought, to let a moment go.

It is the seeker, who understands there is more than what meets the eye, who is not afraid and makes the choice to go into the unknown. The process of awaking has begun, the discovery is underway.

I walk a lot in New York, not for the exercise but to get from place to place, and because it's the way of having the least contact with human beings.

Woman understands children better than man does, but man is more childlike than woman.

My actions will follow my expectations.

Surgery has trained me better than anything else to connect with people.

Beauty is assailed from two directions - by the cult of ugliness in the arts, and by the cult of utility in everyday life.

People should always know better.