Mario Lopez

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful; for beauty is God’s handwriting – a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair sky, in every fair flower, and thank God for it as a cup of blessing.

When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet deep down in his private heart no man much respects himself.

That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.

One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.

There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life… I wanted to live so sturdily and so Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life… to drive life into a corner to know it by experience and be able to give an account of it in my next excursion.

Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friends, but he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his grieves to his friend, but he grieveth the less.

The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.

It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.

Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.

Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.

A good end cannot sanctify evil means; nor must we ever do evil that good may come of it.

Thought is the sculptor who can create the person you want to be.

Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.

Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws. She hums the old well-known air through innumerable variations.