My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those who are sad.
If you are an artist, may no love of wealth or fame or admiration and no fear of blame or misunderstanding make you ever paint, with pen or brush, an ideal of external life otherwise than as you see it.
Wisdom never kicks at the iron walls it can’t bring down.
There are only two things that are absolute realities love and knowledge and you can’t escape them.
There are only two things that are absolute realities love and knowledge and you can’t escape them.
I think if I were dying and I heard of an act of injustice it would start me up to a moment’s life again.
We bear the world and we make it. … There was never a great man who had not a great mother-it is hardly an exaggeration.
There is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others and comforting those that are sad.
Wisdom never kicks at the iron walls it can’t bring down.
We bear the world and we make it…. There was never a great man who had not a great mother-it is hardly an exaggeration.
I know there will be spring as surely as the birds know it when they see above the snow two tiny quivering green leaves. Spring cannot fail us.
No good work is ever done while the heart is hot and anxious and fretted.
Our fathers had their dreams we have ours the generation that follows will have its own. Without dreams and phantoms man cannot exist.
No good work is ever done while the heart is hot and anxious and fretted.