"Take egotism out and you would castrate the benefactors."

"We take care of our health, we lay up money, we make our roof tight and our clothing sufficient, but who provides wisely that he shall not be wanting the best property of all -- friends?"

"What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say."

"He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses."

"Self-trust is the essence of heroism"

"I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the Stern Fact, the Sad Self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from."

"A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle."

"What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup."

"Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy, the whores are us."

"The race may not always be to the swift nor the victory to the strong, but that's how you bet."

"Merrily, merrily shall I live now, Under the blossom that hangs on the bough."

"Love is this divine ingredient. It alone describes what can be our perfect relationship to our Heavenly Father and our family and neighbors, and the means by which we accomplish His work."