“I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul.”
“Tonight I can write the saddest lines.”
“You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming.”
“I want to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees.”
“Love is so short, forgetting is so long.”
“So never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small.”
“Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.”
“Let whoever is in charge keep this simple question in her head: how can I provide for this right thing to be always done?”
“The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.”
“Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.”
“I think one’s feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions.”
“How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.”
“I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse.”
“The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.”
“Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes.”
“Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will.”
“Citizenship consists in the service of the country.”
“Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.”
“A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new.”
“Satire is a lesson; parody is a game.”