It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides..

A child motivated by competitive ideals will grow into a man without conscience, shame, or true dignity..

There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved..

These tears do me good, they have watered the parched place; perhaps my heart will grow again there!.

The lessons of experience are always learned too late..

Admiration and familiarity are strangers..

Experience is always a trustworthy guide; it may not tell you everything, but it never lies..

If people were not wicked I should not mind their being stupid; but, to our misfortune, they are both..

Let us accept truth, even when it surprises us and alters our views..

Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age, and to imagine right up to the brink of death that life is only beginning. I think tha….

Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness..

Learned women are ridiculed because they put to shame unlearned men..

Simplicity is the essence of the great, the true, the beautiful in art..

faith is like love; when you want it you can't find it, and you find it when you least expect it..

Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius..

One is happy as a result of one's own efforts, once one knows of the necessary ingredients of happiness-simple tastes, a certain degree of courage, s….

The intellect seeks, the heart finds..

Life isn't always easy but so long as we have hope that we will find someone to help us through the darkness things will always get better. When we f….

To forgive a fault in another is more sublime than to be faultless one's self..

You may impose silence upon me, but you can not prevent me from thinking..

The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart..