The human soul, by once suffering as much as it is capable of, purchases a strange and terrible immunity to all the rest of life’s sorrows.
We must train hard. It’s not about denying a weakness may exist but about denying its right to persist.
The cross of the Legion of Honor has been conferred on me. However, few escape that distinction.
I am neither of the East nor of the West, no boundaries exist within my breast.
Sow a thought and you reap an action; sow an act and you reap a habit; sow a habit and you reap a character; sow a character and you reap a destiny.
There are three wants which never can be satisfied: that of the rich, who wants something more; that of the sick, who wants something different; and that of the traveler, who says, Anywhere but here.
The dice of God are always loaded.
In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity.
I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I am not afraid of falling into my inkpot.
Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts.
The gap that’s opened I’m filling with fairy dust, hues of the heart and a joy for life what was I invite to exit right quietly, in shades of black and white.
If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
A man’s growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
Every time I think I have reached the peak, I look up and see I still have a ways to go. But I look back and see just how far I have come.
Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.
I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while.
It’s so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and then don’t say it.
He will be loved when dead, who was envied when he was living.
There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.
I don’t do quagmires.
You’ll never have a quiet world until you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
