With renunciation life begins.
Events that are predestined require but little management. They manage themselves. They slip into place while we sleep, and suddenly we are aware that the thing we fear to attempt, is already accompli...
Old age is the verdict of life.
Let me tell thee time is a very precious gift of God so precious that it's only given to us moment by moment.
The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
It is little men know of women their smiles and their tears alike are seldom what they seem.
It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us in joy we face the storm and defy it.
It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.
But the lover's power is the poet's power. He can make love from all the common strings with which this world is strung.
A good message will always find a messenger.
Friends Make Life Bearable But I have certainty enough For I am sure of you.
Injustice is a sixth sense and rouses all the others.
This world is run with far too tight a rein for luck to interfere. Fortune sells her wares she never gives them. In some form or other we pay for her favors or we go empty away.
Truth can be outraged by silence quite as cruelly as by speech.
The great difference between voyages rests not in ships but in the people you meet on them.
There are no little events in life those we think of no consequence may be full of fate and it is at our own risk if we neglect the acquaintances and opportunities that seem to be casually offered...
We hear voices in solitude we never hear in the hurry and turmoil of life we receive counsels and comforts we get under no other condition.
That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and death of kings, or the marching of armies that move them most. When they answer from their depths,...