Uncertainty is the refuge of hope.

I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.

I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.

Sympathy is the first condition of criticism.

Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.

True humility is contentment.

Order is power.

Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.

Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.

There is no respect for others without humility in one's self.

Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.

Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

The best path through life is the highway.

Pure truth cannot be assimilated by the crowd; it must be communicated by contagion.

Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of her mantle.

Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts.

It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing that we look, by writing that we think, by pumping that we draw water into the well.

Tell me what you feel in your room when the full moon is shining in upon you and your lamp is dying out, and I will tell you how old you are, and I shall know if you are happy.