Wisdom is a dreadful thing when it brings no knowledge to its possessor.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

The dice of Zeus always fall luckily.

Always desire to learn something useful

Believe that a further shore is reachable from here.

All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.

Children are the anchors of a mother's life.

Heaven ne'er helps the men who will not act.

There is nothing more hateful than bad advice.

Go then if you must, but remember, no matter how foolish your deeds, those who love you will love you still.

There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors.

With Christ, I can endure every suffering,

Being deeply, passionately, and intensely in love is being deeply, passionately, and intensely in life.

Each of us sees things not as they are but as we are.

If a fellow wants to be nobody in the business world, let him neglect sending the mailman to somebody on his behalf.

The function of a newspaper in a democracy is to stand as a sort of chronic opposition to the reigning quacks. The minute it begins to out-whoop them it forfeits its character and becomes ridiculous.

Why accept failure when success is free?

The hardest-learned lesson: that people have only their kind of love to give, not our kind.

Human life is now molded to a large extent by the changes that man has brought about in his external environment and by his attempts at controlling body and soul.

By reason of gifts and bribes the offices be given to rich men, which should rather have been executed by wise men.