Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.

The unnamed should not be mistaken for the nonexistent.

The pleasure of criticizing takes away from us the pleasure of being moved by some very fine things.

If some persons died and others did not die death would indeed be a terrible affliction.

Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its brevity.

If poverty is the mother of all crimes, lack of intelligence is their father.

The very essence of politeness is to take care that by our words and actions we make other people pleased with us as well as with themselves.

The pleasure of criticism takes away from us the pleasure of being deeply moved by very fine things.

[God] created us free to choose how we would live . . . but leaves us free to pursue our own ends with tragic, natural consequences.

Love has different shape, like this falling snow in winter

To commit suicide is easy. To live without a god is more difficult. The drunkenness of triumph is greater than the drunkenness of sacrifice.

Beauty is an omnipresence of death and loveliness, a smiling sadness that we discern in nature and all things, a mystic communion that the poet feels.

When homeless people go camping, how do they know?

We only attain the true idea of marriage when we consider it as a spiritual union--a union of immortal affections, of undying faculties, of an imperishable destiny.

I don't do a huge amount of physical activity. I play tennis, I work out sporadically, and I eat well and take care of myself.

I desire that there be as many different persons in the world as possible; I would have each one be very careful to find out and preserve his own way.

A man doesn't realize how much he can stand until he is put to the test. You can stand far more than you think you can. You are much stronger than you think you are.

Her capacity for family affection is extraordinary. When her third husband died, her hair turned quite gold from grief.