God has commanded Time to console the afflicted.

Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.

Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another.

The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things.

The evening of life brings with it its lamps.

He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.

Close your eyes and you will see.

Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure the comfort.

lips, red, ruby, like the blood, like the voice.

The more we read, the more we learn.

The moon has been loving us with her dreamy smile for billions of years, but still she is not tired.

People who look down on us poor country folk usually won’t admit that anything worthwhile can come out of here.

The sweetest path of life leads through the avenues of learning, and whoever can open up the way for another, ought, so far, to be esteemed a benefactor to mankind.

The proof that a philosopher does not know what he is talking about is apt to sadden his followers before it reacts on himself.

I think Pan is a superhero movie; I mean, the kid flies in the end.

Daily life is more instructive than the most effective book.

I often think the doctrine of fasting in Lent and having meatless days as old-fashioned...it might be better to give up television.