Nearly every night before I go to bed I ask myself, "Have I vibrated in tune with the Infinite today, or have I failed?

The things that I can't have I want, And what I have seems second-rate, The things I want to do I can't, And what I have to do I hate.

Not every woman in old slippers can manage to look like Cinderella

Of middle age the best that can be said is that a middle aged person has likely learned how to have a little fun in spite of his troubles.

For him who fain would teach the world The world holds hate in fee- For Socrates, the hemlock cup; For Christ, Gethsemane.

Man cannot be uplifted; he must be seduced into virtue

An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience.