As we advance in life the circle of our pains enlarges, while that of our pleasures contracts.

The world has no sympathy with any but positive griefs. It will pity you for what you lose; never for what you lack

Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones.

We reform others unconsciously when we walk uprightly.

There is a transcendent power in example.

To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.

Silence is like nightfall. Objects are lost in it insensibly.

The chains which cramp us most are those which weigh on us least.

The mind wears the colors of the soul, as a valet those of his master.

In youth we feel richer for every new illusion; in maturer years, for every one we lose.

Strength alone knows conflict, weakness is born vanquished.

No greater mistake can be made than to assume that newspapers are correct indices of public opinion.

God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.

Possibly the only thing we Notekillers place on a higher pedestal than music is laughs, so, of course, we also know that the idea of the title is a kind of humorous futility.

I think people often come to the synagogue, mosque, the church looking for God, and what we give them is religion.

There's tons of people that spend a lot time watching their well being, they have not acquired time to take pleasure in it.

I was in fact pretty much - by the larger culture, by the local culture, by people around me, by people on TV - encouraged to imagine women as something slightly inferior to men.

Perhaps the best test of a man's intelligence is his capacity for making a summary.

I teach you celebration. And laughter has certainly to be one of the major ingredients in this celebration.

There are many persons of whom it may be said that they have no other possession in the world but their character, and yet they stand as firmly upon it as any crowned king.

There is no perfect virtue-none that bears fruit- unless it is exercised by means of our neighbor.