Every old poem is sacred.
The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime.
One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions.
The lofty pine is oftenest shaken by the winds; High towers fall with a heavier crash; And the lightning strikes the highest mountain.
Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
He has the deed half done who has made a beginning.
He who would begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.
Every time I think I have reached the peak, I look up and see I still have a ways to go. But I look back and see just how far I have come.
Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.
We can’t plan life. All we can do is be available for it.
The advantage of doing one’s praising to oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.
What is peculiar in the life of a man consists not in his obedience, but his opposition, to his instincts. In one direction or another he strives to live a supernatural life.
Logic is like the sword – those who appeal to it, shall perish by it.
Repartee is something we think of twenty-four hours too late.
The only way for a woman to provide for herself decently is for her to be good to some man that can afford to be good to her.
I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
It were endless to dispute upon everything that is disputable.
Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it.
We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. From the desperate city you go into the desperate country, and have to console yourself with the bravery of minks and muskrats. A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind. There is no play in them, for this comes after work. But it is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.
The great secret, Eliza, is not having bad manners or good manners or any other particular sort of manners, but having the same manner for all human souls: in short, behaving as if you were in Heaven, where there are no third-class carriages, and one soul is as good as another.
