Let us be of good cheer however remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

Fate loves the fearless.

The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers.

All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

Light is the symbol of truth.

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof.

The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.

Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.

Life’s unpredictable patterns had a strange way of forming a connected web.

You are meant to lose the people you love. How else would you know how important they are to you?

Death is terrible to Cicero desirable to Cato and indifferent to Socrates.

I know that this story is true.

Death is the supreme festival on the road to freedom.

One doesn't live in a country, one lives in a language.

Everyone needs a small-town banker. Especially in a big town.

I want to serve desserts and pastries that people recognize and love to eat, but sometimes, with an unexpected twist of surprise.

[N]or should you move so fast! The works of God do not proceed in that way; they come about of themselves, and those He does not create soon perish.

Do not try to paint the grandiose thing. Paint the commonplace so that it will be distinguished.