Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close.
John Ruskin
It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have... →
Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.
Whether for life or death, do your own work well.
The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
Bertrand Russell
Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the... →
A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live.
The man who can centre his thoughts and hopes upon something transcending self can find a certain peace in the ordinary troubles of life, which is... →