Virtue is the health of the soul.

Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.

Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another.

The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things.

The evening of life brings with it its lamps.

He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.

Close your eyes and you will see.

That casual glance was the beginning of a cataclysm of love that had still not ended half a century later.

Necessity may not be the opposite of freedom, and perhaps a man is most free when, instead of producing motives, he could only say, "I am what I do.

I think people are finally realising that women are interesting and more interesting the older they get. But it's taken a while for that realisation to happen.

Better not be a hero than work oneself up into heroism by shouting lies.

A garden is mainly ...a space around which interests can be accumulated.

Strength is the ability to break up a solid piece of chocolate—and then eat just one of the pieces.

I'm Presbyterian and I don't go to church very much.

There are, after all, approaches to be made other than the dependable routes that massage sentimental expectations and provide easy opportunities for emotional identification.

Radium could be very dangerous in criminal hands.

Take your brush here and there like a bee in an alpine meadow. In other words, don't laboriously work on or try to finish off one particular part. Paint promiscuously.