. . . the poor man, whom the law does not allow to take . . . a pair of shoes for his freezing feet, is allowed to put his hand into the pocket of the rich, and say, You shall educate me. . . .

In these times I don't, in a manner of speaking, know what I want; perhaps I don't want what I know and want what I don't know.

Why do we think love is a magician? Because the whole power of magic consists in love. The work of magic is the attraction of one thing by another because of a certain affinity of nature.

Never worry about anything. Live in the present. Live now. Be happy.

The soul exists partly in eternity and partly in time.

Mortal men ask God for good things every day, but they never pray that they may make good use of them.

Artists in each of the arts seek after and care for nothing but love.

Books that distribute things... with as daring a freedom as we use in dreams, put us on our feet again.

Many have paid lip service to philosophy, but these men served it with their whole heart. He tastes nothing who has not tasted for himself.

The ideas of things intellectually known pass into the substance of the intellect much more than do foods into the substance of the body.

You are running to seek your friend. Let your feet run, but your mind need not.

Angry people are not always wise.

Wisdom Is The Principal Thing

The richest values of wilderness lie not in the days of Daniel Boone, nor even in the present, but rather in the future.

You can't help people being right for the wrong reasons...This fear of finding oneself in bad company is not an expression of political purity; it is an expression of a lack of self-confidence.

Trust the tale, not the teller.

That's why I'm not to be trusted. Because a wound to the heart is also a wound to the mind

Christians must allow no unclean thing to interfere with a harmonious relationship with Christ.

I absolutely love Oscar. So classic. So timeless.

I didn't grow up thinking, 'Oh, maybe someday I'm going to have a shoe named after me.'