Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope.

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.

I don’t know about you, but I’ve got plans for next Thursday. And I’m not in the mood to have them ruined by some apocalypse.

Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?

The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.

Drawing is . . . not an exercise of particular dexterity, but above all a means of expressing intimate feelings and moods.

Whether you call someone a hero or a monster is all relative to where the focus of your consciousness may be.

An arch consists of two weaknesses which, leaning one against the other, make a strength.

I believe that in our constant search for security we can never gain any peace of mind until we secure our own soul.

We are irritated by rascals, intolerant of fools, and prepared to love the rest. But where are they?

Knowledge, Action and Devotion are complementary to each other.

He is a fool who leaves things close at hand to follow what is out of reach.