Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it.

A man wants nothing so badly as a gooseberry farm.

The sea has neither meaning nor pity.

They say philosophers and wise men are indifferent. Wrong. Indifference is a paralysis of the soul, a premature death.

Everything on earth is beautiful, everything -- except what we ourselves think and do when we forget the higher purposes of life and our own human dignity.

God's world is a good place. The one thing not good in it is we. How little justice and humility there is in us. How little we understand true patriotism!

Everything should be first-rate in a person, his face, clothes, soul and thoughts.