... trouble of all kinds is voluble, and has plenty of words, but happiness was never written down.

Be not too strict - too far east is west. You may lose all by demanding all.

This world is run with far too tight a rein for luck to interfere. Fortune sells her wares; she never gives them. In some form or other, we pay for her favors; or we go empty away.

politicians ... turn patriotism into shopkeeping and their own interest - men who care far more for who governs us than for how we are governed.. And what will be the end of such ways? I will tell you. We shall have a Democracy that will be the reign of those who know the least and talk the loudest.

All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves.

Whatever the scientists may say, if we take the supernatural out of life, we leave only the unnatural.

Perhaps when the light of heaven shows us clearly the pitfalls and dangers of the earth road that led to the heavenly city, our sweetest songs of gratitude will be not for the troubles we have conquered, but for those we have escaped.