My religious faith remains in possession of the field only after prolonged civil war with my naturally skeptical mind.

The kind of happiness that stays with you is the happiness that springs from inward thoughts and emotions.

One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute.

The highest happiness on earth is marriage. Every man who is happily married is a successful man even if he has failed in everything else.

There is never much trouble in any family where the children hope someday to resemble their parents.

How essential it is in youth to acquire some intellectual or artistic tastes, in order to furnish the mind, to be able to live inside a mind with attractive and interesting pictures on the walls.

A cat pours his body on the floor like water. It is restful just to see him.