God made the water but men made the wine.

Solitude either develops the mental power, or renders men dull and vicious.

The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live.

When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind.

With a tiny bit of effort, the nettle would be useful; if you neglect it, it becomes a pest. So then we kill it. How many men are like nettles My friends, there is no such thing as a weed and no such thing as a bad man. There are only bad cultivators.

One of the magnanimities of woman is to yield.

Everything Changes. The only thing that remains immovable across the centuries and fixes the character of a people is cooking.