The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.

Love, we say, is life; but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.

What we call God's justice is only man's idea of what he would do if he were God.

The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.

Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

Every life is its own excuse for being, and to deny or refute the untrue things that are said of you is an error in judgment. All wrong recoils upon the doer, and the person who makes wrong statements about others is themselves to be pitied, not the person they vilify. It is better to be lied about than to lie. At the last no one can harm us but ourselves.

We will not be dictated to by men with less intelligence, energy, initiative and ambition than we ourselves possess.