We say: mad with joy. We should say: wise with grief.

Laws change more slowly than custom, and though dangerous when they fall behind the times are more dangerous still when they presume to anticipate custom.

The written word has taught me to listen to the human voice, much as the great unchanging statues have taught me to appreciate bodily motions.

Our great mistake is to try to exact from each person virtues which he does not possess, and to neglect the cultivation of those which he has.

The world is big … May it please the One who perchance is to expand the human heart to life's full measure.

No one understands eternity. One simply recognizes its existence.

I think still that someone wiser than I might well have remained happy till his death.