What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth - Compared with love, found, gained, and kept?
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn whatever state I am in, therin to be content
Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.
The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else.
In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.