“Powder is but a thing of yesterday, and war is as old as the human race-unhappily.”

What darkness is to you is light is to me.

The Great Architect of the universe built it of good firm stuff.

The chance which now seems lost may present itself at the last moment.

As long as the heart beats, as long as body and soul keep together, I cannot admit that any creature endowed with a will has need to despair of life.

I am very bad at expressing tender sentiments. The very word ‘love’ frightens me.

The sea is only the embodiment of a supernatural and wonderful existence. It is nothing but love and emotion; it is the ‘Living Infinite.

Trains, like time and tide, stop for no one.

How many things have been denied one day, only to become realities the next!

In presence of Nature’s grand convulsions man is powerless.

Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best.

And whichsoever way thou goest, may fortune follow.

We see that science is eminently perfectible, and that each theory has constantly to give way to a fresh one.

A scholar has to know a little of everything.

What use are the best of arguments when they can be destroyed by force?

Why lower oneself to taking pride from being American or British, when you can boast of being man!

Science, my boy, is composed of errors, but errors that it is right to make, for they lead step by step to the truth.

Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.

Keep smiling, because life is a beautiful thing and there’s so much to smile about.

Happiness is knowin’ you’ve done a good job, whether it’s professional or for another person.

A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic.

Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure: where your treasure, there your heart; where your heart, there your happiness.

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

You can be happy if you know this secret: Some things are within your power to control and some things are not.

When something feels real, you don’t make any apologies for it. When it feels good to you, nothing else matters. Everything else is just noise.