"The happiness of most people we know is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things."

"I have taken all knowledge to be my province."

"The future is not something we enter. The future is something we create."

"I do not believe the Union will disolve, I believe it will become all one thing, or all the other."

"The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything."

"There is no good arguing with the inevitible. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat."

"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt."

"May you be in heaven a half hour before the devil knows your dead"

"You cannot fix a broken heart by pretending it's not broken."

"In nature there are few sharp lines."