Beauty is also a Gift of God, one of the most rare and precious, and we should be thankful if we are happy enough to possess it and thankful, if we are not, that others possess it for our pleasure.
The greatest tragedy of life is not that men perish but that they cease to love.
Patsy had asked him if he had had adventures in Paris and he had truthfully answered no. It was a fact that he had done nothing; his father thought he had had a devil of a time and was afraid he had c...
Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.
If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?
– Търся нещо, без да знам какво точно. Зная обаче, че за мен е много важно да го намеря и че намеря ли го, ще се успокоя. Може би монахините го знаят; когато съм с тях, чувствам, че пазят тайна, в коя...
The inward life might be as manifold, as varied, as rich with experience, as the life of one who conquered realms and explored unknown lands.
You will find as you grow older that the first thing needful to make the world a tolerable place to live in is to recognize the inevitable selfishness of humanity. You demand unselfishness from others...
We are foolish and sentimental and melodramatic at twenty-five, but if we weren’t perhaps we should be less wise at fifty.
We Americans... like change. It is at once our weakness and our strength.
They had furtive eyes and weak chins. There was no wickedness in them, but only pettiness and vulgarity.
The rain fell alike upon the just and upon the unjust, and for nothing was there a why and a wherefore.
The Hindus would say that there was no beginning. The individual soul, co-existent with the universe, has existed from all eternity and owes its nature to some prior existence.
She did not know why it seemed to her so tragic to cry in her sleep.
Passion doesn’t count the cost. Pascal said that the heart has its reasons that reason takes no account of. If he meant what I think, he meant that when passion seizes the heart it invents reasons tha...
My instinct told me I'd be silly to fall in love with him, you know women are very unfortunate, so often when they fall in love they cease to be lovable, and I made up my mind to be on my guard.
Love will be stronger and last longer if there are impediments to its gratification.
Life is short, nature is hostile, and man is ridiculous; but oddly enough most misfortunes have their compensations, and with a certain humour and a good deal of horse-sense one can make a fairly good...
Is it rash to assume that when a practised writer says a thing, he is more likely to mean what he says than what his commentators think he means?
If nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech.