No place is ugly to those who understand the virtues and sweetness of everything that God has made.

Punctuation has its own philosophy, just as style does, although not as language does. Style is a good understanding of language, punctuation is a good understanding of style.

Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.

Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age, and to imagine right up to the brink of death that life is only beginning. I think that is the only way to keep adding to one's talent, and one's inner happiness.

One never knows how much a family may grow; and when a hive is too full, and it is necessary to form a new swarm, each one thinks of carrying away his own honey.

I know that I have found fulfillment. I have an object in life, a task ... a passion.

Humanity is outraged in me and with me.