It is only through restraint that man can manage not to suppress himself.
The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes.
Faith can move mountains; true: mountains of stupidity.
Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon.
We live counterfeit lives in order to resemble the idea we first had of ourselves.
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.