Oh, the soul keeps its youth!

The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them.

Death is like the setting of the sun. The sun never sets; life never ceases. ... we think the sun sets, and it never ceases shining; we think our friends die, and they never cease living.

Solitude is such a potential thing. We hear voices in solitude, we never hear in the hurry and turmoil of life; we receive counsels and comforts, we get under no other condition.

There is much said about the wickedness of doing evil that good may come. Alas! there is such a thing as doing good that evil may come.

Human relations are built on feeling, not on reason or knowledge. And feeling is not an exact science; like all spiritual qualities, it has the vagueness of greatness about it.

what is unreasonable is irrefutable.