Every man and every living creature has a sacred right to the gladness of springtime.

Power, from the standpoint of experience, is merely the relation that exists between the expression of someone's will and the execution of that will by others.

The only happy marriages I know are arranged ones.

Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait. There is nothing stronger than those two: patience and time, they will do it all.

He liked to fish; he seemed to take pride in being able to like such a stupid occupation.

Christianity, with its doctrine of humility, of forgiveness, of love, is incompatible with the state, with its haughtiness, its violence, its punishment, its wars

She was in that highly-wrought state when the reasoning powers act with great rapidity: the state a man is in before a battle or a struggle, in danger, and at the decisive moments of life - those moments when a man shows once and for all what he is worth, that his past was not lived in vain but was a preparation for these moments.