Favorite Quotes

Above all, avoid falsehood, every kind of falsehood, especially falseness to yourself.

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.

Nothing can make our life, or the lives of other people, more beautiful than perpetual kindness.

Good fortune becomes calamity, calamity becomes good fortune; their transformations are limitless, so profound they cannot be fathomed.