When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left and could say, I used everything you gave me.

Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.

Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.

You who suffer because you love, love still more. To die of love, is to live by it.

There is only one success—to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts, of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.