“Night is the other half of life, and the better half.”

I laugh at my heart, and do its will.

You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.

All that is transitory is but a metaphor.

I love those who yearn for the impossible.

There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.

Two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

We know accurately only when we know little; doubt grows with knowledge.

One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.

There is no past we can bring back by longing for it. There is only an eternal now that builds and creates out of the past something new and better.

The intelligent man finds everything laughable, the sensible man hardly anything.

The suffering may be moral or physical; and in my opinion it is just as absurd to call a man a coward who destroys himself, as to call a man a coward who dies of a malignant fever.

Doubt can only be removed by action.

There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.

Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.

We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.

It is impossible to love and be wise.

I thought I had time until I realized the time had me.

When I approach a child he inspires in me two sentiments tenderness for what he is and respect for what he may become.

Have you ever heard silence? How do you hear the silence? You don’t, you feel it. And they stared at the silence between them.

Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.

For friends, do but look upon good books, they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble.

Tied to worldly illusions, our sight is but a painted vision.