There is always a third possibility, as long as you have the ability to find it..

Nothing on earth can make up for the loss of one who has loved you..

For, so long as there are interesting books to read, it seems to me that neither I nor anyone else, for that matter, need be unhappy..

It is often the case with the silent children about us, that they cherish a dream which they dare not talk about..

For what is man's soul but a flame? It flickers in and around the body of a man as does the flame around the rough log..

Women can do nothing that has permanence..

... I see the green earth covered with the works of man or with the ruins of men’s work. The pyramids weigh down the earth, the tower of Babel has pi….

Strange, when you ask anyone's advice you see yourself what is right..

More die in flight than in battle..

A man may be outlawed for the sake of a fish net he has never seen..

No one is able to enjoy such feast than the one who throws a party in his own mind..

If dead things love, if earth and water distinguish friends from enemies, I should like to possess their love. I should like the green earth not to f….

Have you ever seen a child sitting on its mother’s knee listening to fairy stories? As long as the child is told of cruel giants and of the terrible ….

He who is sorrowful can force himself to smile, but he who is glad cannot weep..

Young horses who cannot bear the whip or spur find life hard. At every smart they start forward and rush to their destruction, and when the way is s….

Here, no mercy is shown. One hates one's fellow man to the glory of God..

It is not a good omen to meet a lot of cats when one sets out on a journey, so the Lieutenant spat three times for each cat, as his mother had taught….

Never repeat a rumor before you have verified it. And if it is true, hold your tongue all the more..

The ways of Providence cannot be reasoned out by the finite mind ... I cannot fathom them, yet seeking to know them is the most satisfying thing in a….

There is so little that one can do for the dead!.

There is so much one would rather not believe until one has seen for oneself whether it is true..