The simple life which blandly ignores all care and conflict, soon becomes flabby and invertebrate, sentimental and gelatinous.
Little Jane's love would have been my best reward, without it, my heart is broken.
I would always rather be happy than dignified.
Look twice before you leap.
I have little left in myself -- I must have you. The world may laugh -- may call me absurd, selfish -- but it does not signify. My very soul demands you: it will be satisfied, or it will take deadly vengeance on its frame.
Rapidly, merrily, Life's sunny hours flit by, Gratefully, cheerily Enjoy them as they fly!
Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.
When most people return from Europe, they tell tales of all the sites they saw, the shopping, the entertainment, etc. Jews, on the other hand, return and say I had this slice of cake in Austria, let me tell you, I don't know how they make it! It was great!
He despises what he sought; and he seeks that which he lately threw away. [Lat. , Quod petit spernit, repetit quod nuper omisit. ]
Moral judgment is not life-giving; love that transcends the boundaries of judgment as Jesus' love did, is.
Stars of earth, these golden flowers; emblems of our own great resurrection; emblems of the bright and better land.