We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.

A candid spirit is mightier than the most persistent dogmatism.

The less routine the more life.

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.

First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.

Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

I consider it the best part of an education to have been born and brought up in the country.

Books are the most mannerly of companions, accessible at all times, in all moods, frankly declaring the author's mind, without offense.

A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.

Our ideals are our better selves.

Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

Listening to Benny [Goodman] talk about the clarinet was like listening to a surgeon get hung up on a scalpel.

I think the advantage of democracy is that it makes us less dependent on a group of leaders.

What feeds me destroys me.

It was always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals came easily.

No riches from his scanty store / My lover could impart; / He gave a boon I valued more - / He gave me all his heart!

Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.

If we were to promise people nothing better than only revolution, they would scratch their heads and say: 'Is it not better to have good goulash?'

There's some familiarity in Celtic music, even if you've never heard that piece of music before.

If I'm not happy with how someone is showing up, I can only be honest and hope that my feelings resonate and inspire a deeper look into oneself.

Why can men be boys all of their lives, but we women must grow old while we are yet young?