I pray on the principle that wine knocks the cork out of a bottle. There is an inward fermentation, and there must be a vent.

Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.

The beginning is the promise of the end.

I don't like these cold, precise, perfect people, who, in order not to speak wrong, never speak at all, and in order not to do wrong, never do anything.

Walking humbly, you are more of a man than you were when you walked proudly.

What a pity flowers can utter no sound!-A singing rose, a whispering violet, a murmuring honeysuckle ... oh, what a rare and exquisite miracle would these be!

It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Worry is rust upon the blade.