Great Throughts Treasury

"A happy marriage is a long conversation that always seems to be too short."

"Some truths between husband and wife must be spoken with sweetness. Wounded vanity is fatal to love. It makes one hate the person who inflicted the wound. In married conversation, as in surgery, the knife must be used with care."

"Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know."

"A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day."

"If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds, they would frequently discover that they did not really desire the things they failed to obtain."

"There is no liberty without security, and no security without unity."

"You can take from a man his worldly belongings... but there is something no conqueror can take from him: that is his mind... Decorate and furnish with love that inner sanctuary of yours. We take a lot of trouble buying the right armchairs, tables and pictures; certainly we should take even more trouble to adorn the invisible walls of our minds."

"Life is too short to be little."

"If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny. "

"Either the soul is immortal and we live forever and we shall not die, or it perishes with the flesh, and we shall not know then that we are dead. Live, then, as if you were eternal."

"It is not enough to possess wit. One must have enough of it to avoid having too much."

"Information is not culture. In the mind of a truly educated person, facts are organized, and they make up a living world in the image of the world of reality."

"Men fear silence as they fear solitude, because both give them a glimpse of the terror of life's nothingness."