The true sage is not he who sees, but he who, seeing the furthest, has the deepest love for mankind.

There is a courage of happiness as well as a courage of sorrow.

Do we not all spend the greater part of our lives under the shadow of an event that has not yet come to pass?.

An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness.

Happiness is rarely absent; it is we that know not of its presence.

If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have four years left to live.

How strangely do we diminish a thing as soon as we try to express it in words.

The living are just the dead on holiday

At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past.

We are never the same with others as when we are alone. We are different, even when we are in the dark with them.

Many a happiness in life, a many a disaster, is due to chance alone; but the peace within us can never be governed by chance.

Love : so many people read about it in books and research on it in libraries yet so few discover the real feeling of it!

A fool with a heart and no sense is just as unhappy as a fool with sense and no heart.

It seemed too good to be true. That's grace.

I wondered whose job it was to blow sunshine into my ears.

This is THE most romantic thing that has ever happened to me, and it involves both drugs and a toilet.

But would you sing, and rival Orpheus' strain. The wond'ring forests soon should dance again; The moving mountains hear the powerful call. And headlong streams hand listening in their fall!

I just continue to grind on my own. You can't deny good music at the end of the day.

Reason should be destroyed in all Christians.

Take courage and work on. Patience and steady work- this is the only way.

Bring on all the pretenders!