The eye is easily frightened.
Every wall is a door.
In America the geography is sublime, but the men are not; the inventions are excellent, but the inventors one is sometimes ashamed of.
We know better than we do. We do not yet possess ourselves…
Always do what you are afraid to do.
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.
So of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more it remains.
Possession isn’t nine-tenths of the law. It’s nine-tenths of the problem.
The faith that stands on authority is not faith.
Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
When the romance is gone, if it’s always you left searching for it, maybe it’s time to stop looking, and start searching for someone new, and start a new romantic journey.
Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.
Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each. Let them be your only diet, drink, and botanical medicines.
More than once I had seen a noble who had gotten his enemy at a disadvantage stop to pray before cutting his throat.
You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.
His scorn of the great is repeated too often to be real; no man thinks much of that which he despises.
Only the traveling is good which reveals to me the value of home and enables me to enjoy it better.
It happened once that a youth and a maiden beheld each other in a public assembly for the first time
What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering.
If a man could say nothing against a character but what he can prove, history could not be written.
My life has been one great big joke, a dance that’s walked a song that’s spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself.
