To say that you can love one person all your life is just like saying that one candle will continue burning as long as you live.

The appreciation of the merits of art (of the emotions it conveys) depends upon an understanding of the meaning of life...

The Lord had given them the day and the Lord had given them the strength. And the day and the strength had been dedicated to labor, and the labor was its reward. Who was the labor for? What would be its fruits? These were irrelevant and idle questions.

Three things are needed to educate the peasantry: schools, schools, and schools.

Every heart has its own skeletons.

There are people who, on meeting a successful rival, no matter in what, are at once disposed to turn their backs on everything good in him, and to see only what is bad. There are people, on the other hand, who desire above all to find in that lucky rival the qualities by which he has outstripped them, and seek with a throbbing ache at heart only what is good.

If you want to be happy, be.