There is endless merit in a man's knowing when to have done.

Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist.

He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.

Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Endurance is patience concentrated.

I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom.

A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.

I have hunger for your mouth, for your voice, for your hair

I used to move gracefully. I used to know the word grace to the center of my bones. Now I seek it every day and fall short, inevitably, every day. I lost grace.

Morality or duty never yet made a man happy in himself or dear to others.

The instruction of children should aim gradually to combine knowing and doing. Among all sciences mathematics seems to be the only one of a kind to satisfy this aim most completely.

The boundaries of democracy have to be widened so as to include economic equality also. This is the great revolution through which we are all passing.

Taxpayers would likely be responsible for treating addicts

Across time and generations, books carry the thoughts and feelings, the essence, of the human spirit.

A man's own heart must ever be given to gain that of another.

Idiots can be defeated but they never admit it.

Absolute trust is something hard to achieve even in a family, and it is much harder to achieve on an international level.