Preserve, within a wild sanctuary, an inaccessible valley of reverie.

Cruelty, I truly believe, is the one and only sin.

The older I grow the more earnestly I feel that the few joys of childhood are the best that life has to give.

It is human nature to overestimate the thing you've never had.

But, of course only morons would ever think or speak of themselves as intellectuals. That's why they all look so sad.

No life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it for example by seeing it how it could be worse and then being grateful it isn't.

A doctrine of endurance flows easily from our lips when we are enduring jam and our neighbors dry bread, and it is still possible for us to become resigned to the afflictions of our brother.