Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.

Three silences there are: the first of speech, the second of desire, the third of thought.

It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.

Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.

The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.

It is autumn; not without But within me is the cold. Youth and spring are all about; It is I that have grown old.

If you once understand an author's character, the comprehension of his writings becomes easy.