I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a read more

I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. Nothing else.

He who has a strong enough why can bear almost any how.

He who has a strong enough why can bear almost any how.

The world is full of abundance and opportunity, but far too many people
come to the fountain of life with read more

The world is full of abundance and opportunity, but far too many people
come to the fountain of life with a sieve instead of a tank car...a
teaspoon instead of a steam shovel. They expect little and as a result
they get little.

When human power becomes so great and original that we can account for it only as a kind of divine read more

When human power becomes so great and original that we can account for it only as a kind of divine imagination, we call it genius.

Nothing is politically right which is morally wrong.

Nothing is politically right which is morally wrong.

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not
sometimes taste of adversity, read more

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not
sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.

We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are.

We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are.

The world is not to be put in order, the world is order incarnate. It
is for us to put read more

The world is not to be put in order, the world is order incarnate. It
is for us to put ourselves in unison with this order.

We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.

We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.