Few pleasures there are indeed without an aftertouch of pain, but that is the preservation which keeps them sweet.

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight and no vision.

No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.

We acquire insightful lessons of life in moments of failure than success.

Life will be felt so "flat" without passion .

Mars, therefore, is not only uninhabited by intelligent beings such as Mr. Lowell postulates, but is absolutely uninhabitable.

Until the late-nineteenth-century the House of Commons maintained a formal ban on the reporting of its debates.

You don't have to know what to say or what to do; just listen to the one who sent you.

The moonlight builds its cold chapel again out of piecemeal darkness.

Mirror that lies, mirror that lies, that can't be me in the gorilla disguise.

It's flattering to make a picture which becomes a classic within 10 years; it's not so flattering, however, when people get the impression it's the only picture you've ever made.

The Truth is realized in an instant; the Act is practiced step by step.

Usually the president is kind of the initiator of the idea, then Congress makes it work.