Sometimes wickedness prevails.
You know all that sympathy that you feel for an abused child who suffers without a good mom or dad to love and care for them? Well, they don't stay children forever. No one magically becomes an adult...
The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget; but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open...
I think you have to be cool to be a good flirt, and I don't think I'm very cool.
A bird that fears turbulence will never know how high it can fly.
Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.
The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.
The 10 ever greatest misplacements in life:1. Leadership without character.2. Followership without servant-being.3. Brotherhood without integrity.4. Affluence without wisdom.5. Authority without consc...
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
I am all that hath been, and is, and shall be; and my veil no mortal has hitherto raised.
A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.