Swiss Quotes

Tell me what you feel in your room when the full moon is shining in upon you and your lamp is dying out, and I will tell you how old you are, and I shall know if you are happy.

I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.

Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.

Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven.

Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers.

The man who has no inner-life is a slave to his surroundings.

Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.

Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore; not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

There is no respect for others without humility in one's self.

Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts.

Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.

The study of Nature is intercourse with the Highest Mind. You should never trifle with Nature.

The glacier was God's great plough set at work ages ago to grind, furrow, and knead over, as it were, the surface of the earth.

Study nature, not books.

Facts are stupid until brought into connection with some general law.

Every scientific truth goes through three states: first, people say it conflicts with the Bible; next, they say it has been discovered before; lastly, they say they always believed it.

I cannot afford to waste my time making money.