If pain could have cured us, we should have long ago been saved.

True youth is a quality which is acquired only with age.

The greatest trust between man and man is the trust ofgiving counsel.

When our hearts are empty, we collect things.

A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn't care. Momentum is wht it wants to gather.

Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believingas we already do.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives Ideas have endurance without death.

Conscience is the frame of character, love is the covering for it.

Ability is poor men's wealth

Peoplespend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idledreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill theemptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed tosearch was within.

Onceyou consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things backthe way they are.

Whenyou cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of actionyou should take choose the bolder.