Quality is not an act, it is a habit.

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.

Adventure is worthwhile.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.

Be a free thinker and don't accept everything you hear as truth. Be critical and evaluate what you believe in.

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

I'm on the side of whatever keeps the flowers growing.

You don't really know a woman until she writes you a letter.

Pain has its reasons, pleasure is totally indifferent.

Love receives its death-wound from aversion, and forgetfulness buries it.

Every relationship is just so tenuous and precarious.

Americans are all inquisitive, which accounts for their go-aheadativeness, I dare say.

In my opinion, all relationships between people have some sort of violence, and it is central.

the suppression of war is not the equivalent of peace.

Our most dangerous tendency is to expect too much of government, and at the same time do for it too little.

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.