I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a servant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite.

Criticism is something you can easily avoid by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

In nature there are few sharp lines.

Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

I have no taste for either poverty or honest labor, so writing is the only recourse left for me.

We only have what we give.

Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.

There is an innocence in admiration: it occurs in one who has not yet realized that they might one day be admired.

It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

If we love our country we should also love our countrymen.

Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets.

Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.