The more a man loves, the more he suffers. The sum of possible grief for each soul is in proportion to its degree of perfection.

Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

To understand is to possess the thing understood, first by sympathy and then by intelligence.

I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.

Great men are the real men, in them nature has succeeded.

Uncertainty is the refuge of hope.

Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender.