Time does not relinquish its rights, either over human beings or over mountains.

When you are in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude. We don't get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like.

True happiness springs from moderation.

A great deal may be done by severity, more by love, but most by clear discernment and impartial justice.

Of the book of books most wondrous is the tender book of love.

I curse all negative purism that tells me not to use a word from another language that either expresses something that my own language cannot or does that in a more delicate manner.

If a man knows where to get good advice, it is as though he could supply it himself.