Any sincere thought is irresistible.

With a little more deliberation in the choice of their pursuits, all men would perhaps become essentially students and observers, for certainly their nature and destiny are interesting to all alike.

However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are.

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.

He who cannot exaggerate is not qualified to utter truth.

As every season seems best to us in its turn, so the coming in of spring is like the creation of Cosmos out of Chaos and the realization of the Golden Age.

I do not wish to be any more busy with my hands than is necessary.