Events that are predestined require but little management. They manage themselves. They slip into place while we sleep, and suddenly we are aware that the thing we fear to attempt, is already accomplished.
With renunciation life begins.
The great difference between voyages rests not in ships but in the people you meet on them.
Friends Make Life Bearable But I have certainty enough, For I am sure of you.
We hear voices in solitude, we never hear in the hurry and turmoil of life; we receive counsels and comforts we get under no other condition.
A good message will always find a messenger.
It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.
Truth can be outraged by silence quite as cruelly as by speech.
It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us; in joy we face the storm and defy it.
That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and death of kings, or the marching of armies that move them most. When they answer from their depths, it is to the domestic joys and tragedies of life.
Human relations are built on feeling, not on reason or knowledge. And feeling is not an exact science; like all spiritual qualities, it has the vagueness of greatness about it.
It is little men know of women; their smiles and their tears alike are seldom what they seem.
But what do we know of the heart nearest to our own? What do we know of our own heart?
This world is run with far too tight a rein for luck to interfere. Fortune sells her wares; she never gives them. In some form or other, we pay for her favors; or we go empty away.
But the lover's power is the poet's power. He can make love from all the common strings with which this world is strung.
Old age is the verdict of life.
