in God alone is love without tears, and of eternal duration.

The effect of every burden laid down is to leave us relieved; and when the soul has laid down that of its faults at the feet of God, it feels as though it had wings.

How long time is when one is sad! Is it three years or three days since you went away?

The errors of the intellect are fatal, still more dangerous than those of the heart.

Certainly, friends are sufficiently rare not to be neglected; they are life's best comforters.

Kings may see their palaces fall, but the ants will always have their dwellings.

My God, how badly one calculates in this world! ... Let us leave off calculating on anything but death -- it is the only certainty.

One has so much time for thought in the country! However occupied one may be, 'tis with nothing that engrosses the mind, which works away on its own account like a mill-wheel.

One fancies that what one loves cannot die.

Solitude causes us to write because it causes us to think.

Witticisms are fire-arms, that make a noise and give pain.

Each day is a blessing, and I awake wondering what wonderful thing, no matter how big or small, will happen to me today.

We must learn to accept life and to accept ourselves ... with a shrug and a smile ... because it's all we've got.

Uncertainty is a very good thing: it's the beginning of an investigation, and the investigation should never end.

Some Harvard guy said that acid would open our minds, pot wouldn't hurt us, and cocaine was benign.

If you are not offending some Pharisees, you are not being effective.

The secret of happiness is the determination to be happy always, rather than wait for outer circumstances to make one happy.

The era of Christianity peace, brotherhood, the Golden Rule as applied to governmental matters is. yet to come, and when it comes, then, and then only, will the future of nations be sure.

Directing is not a job. It's more like a career. Which is great!

You can't pick when you're touched. You can't pick the time. It just is. It's the reality. What it is, is. I can't change the past. I can only deal with the present and the future.

I like the power given the Legislature to levy taxes, and for that reason solely approve of the greater house being chosen by the people directly.