Coleridge cried; "O God, how glorious it is to live!" Renan asks, "O God, when will it be worth while to live?" In Nature we echo the poet; in the world we echo the thinker.

The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.

An easy-going husband is the one indispensable comfort of life.

Emulation is active virtue; envy is brooding malice.

Scandals are like dandelion seeds--they are arrow-headed, and stick where they fall, and bring forth and multiply fourfold.

Petty laws breed great crimes.

Intensely selfish people are always very decided as to what they wish. They do not waste their energies in considering the good of others.

Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.

Music is not a science any more than poetry is. It is a sublime instinct, like genius of all kinds.

I do not wish to be a coward like the father of mankind and throw the blame upon a woman.

Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.

I don't believe in the kind of magic in my books. But I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book.

Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates.

Don't just learn something from every experience, learn something positive.

Your destiny is in your hands. Creating the life you want is only, and always, up to you.

Each artist or writer who works in Venice comes to believe that the city yields its most special secret to him or her alone.

I promised a lot of people I'd slow down when I turned 80.

Time glides with undiscover'd haste; The future but a length behind the past.

Knuckle deep inside the borderline. This may hurt a little but it's something you'll get used to. Relax. Slip away.

Men to whom life had appeared as a reversible coat - seamy on both sides.

Life is simply time given to man to learn how to live.