Love creates, love cements, love enters and harmonizes all things.

How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism.

The conscience is the most flexible material in the world. Today you cannot stretch it over a mole hill; while tomorrow it can hide a mountain.

He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite.

Genius is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose.

Men are valued, not for what they are, but for what they seem to be.

A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday.

A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry to a woman.

Punctuality is the stern virtue of men of business, and the graceful courtesy of princes.

Love has no thought of self! Love buys not with the ruthless usurer's gold The loathsome prostitution of a hand Without a heart! Love sacrifices all things To bless the thing it loves!

A fresh mind keeps the body fresh.

I could watch her dance for hours, Because she's always dancing inside of my heart.

And sometimes we die to prove that we lived.

When critics disagree the artist is in accord with himself.

Every event in our lives occurs to teach us something about ourselves.

If you can, help others; if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them.

To go upon the Franciscans Hackney (i.e. on foot).

If thinking minds, questioning minds, doubting minds, are talking about faith, their whole life will become fake.

You need a stubborn belief in an idea in order to see it realised.

When ideas are communicated effectively, people follow and change.

The best gift you can give yourself is the gift of possibility.