“Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there’s a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.”

What we once enjoyed and deeply loved we can never lose, For all that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

I believe in the immortality of the soul because I have within me immortal longings.

Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness.

True happines is not attained through self gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

It was my teacher’s genius, her quick sympathy, her loving tact which made the first years of my education so beautiful.

Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.

True friends never apart maybe in distance but never in heart.

Great poetry needs no interpreter other than a responsive heart.

The struggle of life is one of our greatest blessings. It makes us patient, sensitive, and Godlike. It teaches us that although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.

Blindness separates people from things; deafness separates people from people.

Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.

So much has been given to me I have not time to ponder over that which has been denied.

As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.

Your success and happiness lie in you.

It’s wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears

People don’t like to think, if one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.

A Man Without Honor is Worse than Dead.

I’m the one that’s got to die when it’s time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to.

What father ever gave up his son to death for the sake of his slave!

Teach me to live, that I may dread The grave as little as my bed. Teach me to die.

Since death is certain and the time of death is uncertain, what is the most important thing?

Truth always ends by victory; it is not unassailable, but invincible.

A man thinks he is dying for his country,” said Anatole France, “but he is dying for a few industrialists.” But even that is saying too much. What one dies for is not even so substantial and tangible as an industrialist.

All places are alike, and every earth is fit for burial.