the biggest tragedy of life is the utter impossibility to change what you have done

He might wish and wish and never get it - the beauty and the loving in the world!

Once admit that we have the right to inflict unnecessary suffering and you destroy the very basis of human society.

We are not living in a private world of our own. Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.

Beauty means this to one person, perhaps, and that to the other. And yet when any one of us has seen or heard or read that which to us is beautiful, we have known an emotion which is in every case the same in kind, if not in degree; an emotion precious and uplifting.

If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.

The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy, the building of a house, the writing of a novel, the demolition of a bridge, and, eminently, the finish of a voyage.