All Quotes

Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph. ”

Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing. ”

If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise. ”

I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots. ”

Designs in connection with postage stamps and coinage may be described, I think, as the silent ambassadors on national taste. ”

Once you attempt legislation upon religious grounds, you open the way for every kind of intolerance and religious persecution. ”

The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity. ”

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. ”

Come away, O human child: To the waters and the wild with a fairy, hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand. ”

The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time. ”