The sight of such a monument is like continual and stationary music, which one hears for one's good as one approaches it.

Goethe has made a remark upon the perfectability of the human mind, which is full of sagacity: It is always advancing, but in a spiral line.

Love is the symbol of eternity.

Enthusiasm signifies 'God in us.'

Prayer is the life of the soul.

The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action.

As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.

In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable.

The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man.

Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Every child that receives life advice should keep in mind that in every parent’s past, there’s leftover booze and contraceptives.

Harshness is the enemy of gratitude.

How bitter they cry in need, those who refuse to help others in trouble!

If commas are open to interpretation, hyphens are downright Delphic.

Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can quietly become a power no government can suppress, a power than can transform the world.

The difference between the word fiend and friend is merely one letter. I could easily be the latter. If you knew me better...

Dealing with the State Department is like watching an elephant become pregnant.

[My mother] always said I was beautiful and I finally believed her at some point.

The lotos bowed above the tide and dreamed.

It will burden her conscience in life, it will burden her soul in death; but oh, thrice guilty is he who. . .drove her to the desperation which impelled her to the crime.