Tell the angel who will watch over your life to pray now and then for a man who, like Satan, believed himself for an instant to be equal to God, but who realized in all humility that supreme power and wisdom are in the hands of God alone.

If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself.

Life is a storm. One minute you will bathe under the sun and the next you will be shattered upon the rocks. That's when you shout, "Do your worst, for I will do mine!" and you will be remembered forever.

Ah," said the jailer, "do not always brood over what is impossible, or you will be mad in a fortnight.

For there are two distinct sorts of ideas: Those that proceed from the head and those that emanate from the heart.

On what slender threads do life and fortune hang.

Ah, lips that say one thing, while the heart thinks another.