In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past

You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.

He who floats with the current, who does not guide himself according to higher principles, who has no ideal, no convictions-such a man is . . . a thing moved, instead of a living and moving being-an echo, not a voice. The man who has no inner-life is a slave of his surroundings as the barometer is the obedient servant of the air.

To do what is impossible for talent is the mark of genius.

Happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health.

Nothing is more characteristic of a man than the manner in which he behaves toward fools.

Let mystery have its place in you ; do not be always turning up your whole soil with the ploughshare of self-examination, but leave a little fallow corner in your heart ready for any seed the winds may bring.