Time and space are fragments of the infinite for the use of the finite creatures. |
To be always ready a man must be able to cut a knot, for everything cannot be untied |
To depersonalize man is the dominant drift of our times. |
To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark of talent. To do what is impossible for talent is the mark of genius. |
To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living. |
To know how to suggest is the art of teaching |
To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest; we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then, by simply changing the key, we keep up the attraction and vary the song. |
To marry unequally is to suffer equally. |
To shun one's cross is to make it heavier. |
To win true peace, a man needs to feel himself directed, pardoned, and sustained by a supreme power, to feel himself in the right road, at the point where God would have him be - in order with God and the universe. This faith gives strength and calm. |
True humility is contentment. |
True love is that which ennobles the personality, fortifies the heart, and sanctifies the existence. |
Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence |
Uncertainty is the refuge of hope. |
We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves. |