Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.
Everything you need for better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you have to do is go to the library.
To marry unequally is to suffer equally.
Sympathy is the first condition of criticism.
Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of her mantle.
Truth is not only violated by falsehood it may be equally outraged by silence.
The man who has no inner-life is a slave to his surroundings.
Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.
Order is power.
In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties.
He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature... is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life.
The best path through life is the highway.
Time wasted is a theft from God.
Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more.
It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing that we look, by writing that we think, by pumping that we draw water into the well.
True humility is contentment.
Man becomes man only by the intelligence but he is man only by the heart.
To repel one's cross is to make it heavier.
Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.
I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.