Every man has a paradise around him till he sins, and the angel of an accusing conscience drives him from his Eden.

Softly the evening came /with the sunset/.

A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.

Behind the clouds is the sun still shining.

Into each life some rain must fall.

The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.

My soul is full of longing for the secret of the sea

It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.

Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.

Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.

Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time.

In that shrinking moment he discovered that he had never hated anyone until now. It was a feeling as pure as love, but dispassionate and icily rational.

There are, he assures her, no such things as curses. There is luck, maybe, bad or good. A slight indication of each day toward success or failure. But no curses.

In all seriousness, it really should be difficult for me to be too strange. After all, a great family raised me.

In politics there is no right answer - and no final answer.

We learned that a former prisoner of war had more to teach us about what it takes to find a path to greatness than most books on corporate strategy.

I can critique the bad; I can take the good, and I can add whatever I want.

The kings of modern thought are dumb.

Not that I'd really been planning on keeping the attack secret; it had just been an option I'd wanted to keep open if I could.

All men are equal in nature, and also in original sin. It is in the merits and demerits of their actions that they differ.

Men of this world all rejoice in others being like themselves, and object to others not being like themselves.