Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.
We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death, yet choice is the sovereign faculty of the mind.
Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose.
Pride, avarice, and envy are in every home.
Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value.
The best thing about animals is that they don't talk much.
Ninety-nine per cent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.
Marriage is a bribe to make the housekeeper think she's a householder.
When you're safe at home you wish you were having an adventure when you're having an adventure you wish you were safe at home.
It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness.