Thanks, when they are expressed, are often more embarrassing than welcomed

You know who you can know, and you know who you can like, and there are affinities that are expressed without ever having an explanation.

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.

I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.

He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.