It is better to be defeated on principle than to win on lies.
To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.
The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved — loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
We shall never cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time.
Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.