Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.

A criminal remains a criminal whether he uses a convict's suit or a monarch's crown.

A house is built of logs and stone, of tiles and posts and piers; a home is built of loving deeds that stand a thousand years.

The world is the expanding Greece and Greece is the shrinking world.

The earlier works of a man of genius are always preferred to the newer ones, in order to prove that he is going down instead of up.

To see so much misery everywhere, I suspect that God is not rich. He keeps up appearances, it is true, but I feel the pinch. He gives a revolution as a merchant, whose credit is low, gives a ball.

If you look in the eyes of the young, you see flame. If you look in the eyes of the old, you see light.