I grieve that grief can teach me nothing, nor carry me one step into real nature.

Successful is the person who has lived well, laughed often and loved much, who has gained the respect of children, who leaves the world better than they found it, who has never lacked appreciation for the earth's beauty, who never fails to look for the best in others or give the best of themselves.

Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time.

When it is darkest, we can see the stars.

If two or three persons should come with a high spiritual aim and with great powers, the world would fall into their hands like a ripe peach.

Give the slave the least elevation of religious sentiment, and he is not slave: you are the slave: he not only in his humility feels his superiority, feels that much deplored condition of his to be a fading trifle, but he makes you feel it too. He is the master.

Our expenses are all for conformity.