“Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.”

Woman is closer to angels than man because she knows how to mingle an infinite tenderness with the most absolute compassion.

To live in the presence of great truths and eternal laws, to be led by permanent ideals – that is what keeps a man patient when the world ignores him, and calm and unspoiled when the world praises him.

Do you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice.

A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.

The greatest tyranny is to love I where we are not loved again.

Gratitude is a fool’s word; we find it in the dictionary, but it is not in the heart of man.

Though the human heart may have to pause for rest when climbing the heights of affection it rarely stops on the slippery slope of hatred.

A courage which looks easy & yet is rare; the courage of a teacher repeating day after day the same lessons – the least rewarded of all forms of courage.

Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.

Women are happy to possess a man whom all women covet.

The boor covers himself, the rich man or the fool adorns himself, and the elegant man gets dressed.

Temperament is the thermometer of character.

Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating.

A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.

Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.

God is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.

At one point, I thought life was about acquiring things. But as a I get older, life is totally about losing everything.

A man can get something from war that is impossible to acquire any place else.

A man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.

Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

I conclude that the musical notes and rhythms were first acquired by the male or female progenitors of mankind for the sake of charming the opposite sex.

Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into.

The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.

We acquire the strength we have overcome.