It is one of life's laws that as soon as one door closes another opens. But the tragedy is we look at the closed door and disregard the open one.

There's a law in life: whenever a door closes, a new one will open.

From the satisfaction of desire there may arise, accompanying joy and as it were sheltering behind it, something not unlike despair.

The pettiness of a mind can be measured by the pettiness of its adoration or its blasphemy.

A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

Art that submits to orthodoxy, to even the soundest doctrines, but lacks imagination and deep self-expression is lost leaving only the craftsmanship.

The miser puts his gold pieces into a coffer; but as soon as the coffer is closed, it is as if it were empty.