We are not wrong, perhaps, to be heedful of justice in the midst of a universe that heeds not at all; as the bee is not wrong to make honey in a world that itself can make none. But we are wrong to de...
We possess only the happiness we are able to understand.
Our reason may prove what it will: our reason is only a feeble ray that has issued from Nature.
It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
I believe that poems die the moment they are outwardly expressed.
Happiness will never be any greater than the idea we have of it.
(there is) no other means of escaping from one's consciousness than to deny it, to look upon it as an organic disease of the terrestrial intelligence - a disease which we must endeavor to cure by an a...
Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who are happy to let others know of their gladness.
At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past.
An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness.
To disdain today is to prove that yesterday has been misunderstood.
The future is a world limited by ourselves-in it we discover only what concerns us.
There comes no adventure but wears to our soul the shape of our everyday thoughts.
There is a courage of happiness as well as a courage of sorrow.
I have done what I could do in life and if I could not do better I did not deserve it. In vain I have tried to step beyond what bound me.
All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.
You do well to have visions of a better life than of every day but it is the life of every day from which the elements of a better life must come.
An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it.
Nothing befalls us that is not of the nature of ourselves. There comes no adventure but wears to our soul the shape of our everyday thoughts.