Most men spend the first half of their lives making the second half miserable.

The sweetest of all sounds is that of the voice of the woman we love.

No road is to long for him who advances slowly and does not hurry and no attainment is beyond his reach who equips himself with patience to achieve it

Generosity lies less in giving much than in giving at the right moment.

The spendthrift robs his heirs the miser robs himself.

A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself.

Courtly manners are contagious; they are caught at Versailles.

We are more sociable, and get on better with people by the heart than the intellect.

A prince wants only the pleasure of private life to complete his happiness.

There is as much trickery required to grow rich by a stupid book as there is folly in buying it.

Out of difficulties grow miracles.

You are the God. You are the embodiment of God. The moment you start to love everyone and everything, you are doing your divine duty.

Ha!" cried Dr John contemptuously. "Magic! That is chiefly used for killing Frenchmen, is it not?

The rights of man are poor things beside the eyes of hungry children. Their hurts are keener than the soreness of injustice.

I work within the limits of what I have and know, simplicity and low impact, natural materials and processes, leaving a delicate footprint.

Think of the millions of young men who died fighting for democracy. We spit on their graves when we let democracy slip away into the sewer of illegal money.

Hard and impossible are two different things!

It's not what happens, it's what you do that determines your future.

Whoever does not accept my teaching may not be saved - for it is God's teaching and not mine.

And so in my mind's eye these coastal forms merge and blend in a shifting, kaleidoscopic pattern in which there is no finality, no ultimate and fixed reality - earth becoming fluid as the sea itself.

The beet must be uprooted.