“The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives
“A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world
“If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours
“Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough
“Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time
“Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
“The home to everyone is to him his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury and violence, as for his repose
“If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old
“Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
“Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away
“I do not see any other way of realizing our hopes about World Organization in five or six days. Even the Almighty took seven
“No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable