The monuments of the nations are all protests against nothingness after death so are statues and inscriptions so is history.

The happiness of love is in action; its test is what one is willing to do for others.

A man is never so on trial as in the moment of excessive good fortune.

While craving justice for ourselves, it is never wise to be unjust to others.

When people are lonely they stoop to any companionship.

Riches take wings, comforts vanish, hope withers away,but love stays with us. Love is God.

The monuments of the nations are all protests against nothingness after death; so are statues and inscriptions; so is history.

As a rule, there is no surer way to the dislike of men than to behave well where they have behaved badly.

Repentance must be something more than mere remorse for sins: it comprehends a change of nature befitting heaven.

Pure wisdom always directs itself towards God; the purest wisdom is knowledge of God.

A man thirty years old, I said to myself, should have his field of life all ploughed, and his planting well done; for after that it is summer time.

My grandmother always told me: beauty fades but dumb is forever.

Love is the most difficult and dangerous form of courage. Courage is the most desperate, admirable and noble kind of love.

Germany collapsed as a result of having engaged in a struggle for empire with the concepts of provincial politics.

The day hunger disappears, the world will see the greatest spiritual explosion humanity has ever seen.

I love these pet names," she said, gazing soulfully up into his eyes, "Nitwit. Sap skull. Termagant. How they make my heart flutter!

It is commonly agreed that children spend more hours per year watching television than in the classroom, and far less in actual conversation with their parents.

The world changes materially. Science makes advances in technology and understanding. But the world of humanity doesn't change.

By no means. I have just given you my serious and well-considered profession of faith. Although a firm friend of order, I am (in the full force of the term) an anarchist. Listen to me.

Our asylum system is sick.

Come on... when you're running, if you see you're going to win, you're going to celebrate.