Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can

Men are always ready to die for us, but not to make our lives worth having. Cheap sentiment and bad logic.

Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again.

Honesty is the best policy, in love as in law.

Where the heart is the mind works best.

It’s amazing how lovely common things become if one only knows how to look at them.

The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.

Nothing is impossible to a determined woman.

Be comforted, dear soul! There is always light behind the clouds.

I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.

Man has it all in his hands, and it all slips through his fingers from sheer cowardice.

The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!

Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.

If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.

There is immeasurably more left inside than what comes out in words.

A hundred suspicions don't make proof.

The more incompetent one feels, the more eager he is to fight.