It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.Collection: Inspirational
The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.Collection: Love
It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us; in joy we face the storm and defy it.Collection: Inspirational
It is little men know of women; their smiles and their tears alike are seldom what they seem.Collection: Women
Human relations are built on feeling, not on reason or knowledge. And feeling is not an exact science; like all spiritual qualities, it has the vagueness of greatness about it.Collection: Knowledge
With renunciation life begins.Collection: Life
When men make themselves into brutes it is just to treat them like brutes.
Whatever the scientists may say, if we take the supernatural out of life, we leave only the unnatural.
Kindness is always fashionable, and always welcome.
That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and death of kings, or the marching of armies that move them most. When they answer from their depths, it is to the domestic joys and tragedies of life.
The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them.
Old age is the verdict of life.
All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves.
This world is run with far too tight a rein for luck to interfere. Fortune sells her wares; she never gives them. In some form or other, we pay for her favors; or we go empty away.
But the lover's power is the poet's power. He can make love from all the common strings with which this world is strung.
But what do we know of the heart nearest to our own? What do we know of our own heart?
Events that are predestined require but little management. They manage themselves. They slip into place while we sleep, and suddenly we are aware that the thing we fear to attempt, is already accomplished.
The inevitable has always found me ready and hopeful.
There is no corner too quiet, or too far away, for a woman to make sorrow in it.
What we buy, and pay for, is part of ourselves.
Kindness is always fashionable.Collection: Thank You
Truth can be outraged by silence quite as cruelly as by speech.Collection: Ignorance
Forethought spares afterthought.Collection: Planning
There are no little events in life, those we think of no consequence may be full of fate, and it is at our own risk if we neglect the acquaintances and opportunities that seem to be casually offered, and of small importance.Collection: Inspirational
Mediocrity is always in a rush; but whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing with consideration. For genius is nothing more nor less than doing well what anyone can do badly.Collection: Genius
To forgive freely, is what we owe to our enemy; to forget not, is what we owe to ourselves.Collection: Forgiveness
It is not that we have a soul, we are a soul.Collection: Soul
youth is always sure that change must mean something better.Collection: Change
Death is like the setting of the sun. The sun never sets; life never ceases. ... we think the sun sets, and it never ceases shining; we think our friends die, and they never cease living.Collection: Thinking
Don’t fail through defects of temper and over-sensitiveness at moments of trial. One of the great helps to success is to be cheerful; to go to work with a full sense of life; to be determined to put hindrances out of the way; to prevail over them and to get the mastery. Above all things else, be cheerful; there is no beatitude for the despairing.Collection: Cheerful
A good message will always find a messenger.Collection: Messengers
what is unreasonable is irrefutable.Collection: Unreasonable
if a thing is to be done, there is no time like the hour that has not struck.Collection: Done
the fruit of life is experience, not happiness.Collection: Fruit
No man was ever ruined from without; the final ruin comes from within, when you turn hopeless and lose courage!Collection: Men
I wear the key of memory, and can open every door in the house of my life.Collection: Memories
politicians ... turn patriotism into shopkeeping and their own interest - men who care far more for who governs us than for how we are governed.. And what will be the end of such ways? I will tell you. We shall have a Democracy that will be the reign of those who know the least and talk the loudest.Collection: Men
I have seen that every one forgives much in themselves that they find unpardonable in other people.Collection: Forgiveness
In all troublous events we may find comfort, though it be only in the negative admission that things might have been worse.Collection: Gratitude
All revolutions are treason until they are accomplished.Collection: Revolution
The first step is what I like to be sure of ... to the second step it often binds you.Collection: Firsts
... how poorly do we love even those whom we love most! We are not only bruised by the limitations of their love for us, but also by the limitations of our own love for them.Collection: Bruised
Oh, the soul keeps its youth!Collection: Soul
... money trials are not the hardest, and somehow or other, they are always overcome.Collection: Money
... the evil that comes out of your lips, into your own bosom will fall.Collection: Fall
when we leave society and come into the presence of Nature, we become children again; and the fictions of thought and action assumed among men drop off like a garment.Collection: Nature
There is much said about the wickedness of doing evil that good may come. Alas! there is such a thing as doing good that evil may come.Collection: Evil
a little misgiving in the beginning of things, means much regret in the end of them.Collection: Regret
... if fiction does not show us a better life than reality, what is the good of it?Collection: Reality