Give us the fortitude to endure the things which cannot be changed, and the courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to know one from the other.
And I hear from the outgoing ship in the bay The song of the sailors in glee: So I think of the luminous footprints that bore The comfort o'er dark Galilee, And wait for the signal to go to the shore, To the ship that is waiting for me.
O cursed ambition, thou devouring bird, how dost thou from the field of honesty pick every grain of profit or delight, and mock the reaper's toil!
Anyone who takes himself too seriously always runs the risk of looking ridiculous; anyone who can consistently laugh at himself does not.
Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roo
The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
So she poured out the liquid music of her voice to quench the thirst of his spirit.
You can?t talk about a kind of democracy unless those who are affected by decisions make those decisions whether the institutions in question be the welfare department, the university, the factory, the farm, the neighborhood, the country.
Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.
Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.
One shining quality lends a lustre to another, or hides some glaring defect.
Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity.
The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.
The soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do just as one pleases.
The truly proud man knows neither superiors nor inferiors. The first he does not admit of; the last he does not concern himself about.
I should like to spend the whole of my life in traveling abroad, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend afterwards at home.
Since philosophy is the exploration of the rational, it is for that very reason the apprehension of the present and the actual, not the erection of a beyond, supposed to exist, God knows where, or rather which exists, and we can perfectly well say where, namely in the error of a one-sided, empty, ratiocination.
The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible.
The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible.
In earlier religions the spirit of the time was expressed through the individual and confirmed by miracles. In modern religions the spirit is expressed through the many and confirmed by reason.
I have never seen an ass who talked like a human being, but I have met many human beings who talked like asses.
The fundamental evil of the world arose from the fact that the good Lord has not created money enough.
To be a successful father there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years.
Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.
It matters not how straight the gate How charged with punishments the scroll I am the master of my fate I am the captain of my soul.
Plain women know more about men than beautiful ones do. But beautiful women don't need to know about men. It's the men who have to know about beautiful women.
Dressing up is a bore. At a certain age, you decorate yourself to attract the opposite sex, and at a certain age, I did that. But I?m past that age.
Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things.
Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.