I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love

Together we can do great things

I can do things you cannot, you can do things I cannot; together we can do great things

We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.

“There were sins whose fascination was more in the memory than in the doing of them, strange triumphs that gratified the pride more than the passions, and gave to the intellect a quickened sense of joy, greater than any joy they brought, or could ever bring, to the senses.” 

“The sky was pure opal now.” 

“The basis of optimism is sheer terror. We think that we are generous because we credit our neighbour with the possession of those virtues that are likely to be a benefit to us. We praise the banker that we may overdraw our account, and find good qualities in the highwayman in the hope that he may spare our pockets.” 

“Even things that are true can be proved.” 

“I never take any notice to what common people say, and I never interfere with what charming people do.” 

To fill the hour – that is happiness.

“There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating: people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.” 

A moment is a concentrated eternity.

“It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.” 

“With freedom, flowers, books, and the moon, who could not be perfectly happy?” 

The highest compact we can make with our fellow is, “Let there be truth between us two forever more”.

Always scorn appearances, and you always may.

Two may talk and one may hear, but three cannot take part in a conversation of the most sincere and searching sort.

The sublime is excited in me by the great stoical doctrine, obey thyself.

So is cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more remains.

There is no knowledge that is not power.

In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity.

Shall I tell you the secret of the true scholar? It is this: Every man I meet is my master in some point, and in that I learn of him.

We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages.

The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.