My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.
The liar’s punishment is, not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.
You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success – or are they holding you back?
At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be infinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable.
I’ve never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them.
We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
Sir, they are a race of convicts, and ought to be thankful for anything we allow them short of hanging.
He took off his hat and shook it (having hurried home as though his own coronation were waiting), and moved now with the slow deliberation of lonely people who have time for every meager requirement of their lives.
The world is seldom what it seems; to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities.
He does not care for flowers. Calls them rubbish, and cannot tell one from another, and thinks it is superior to feel like that.
For things to reveal themselves to us, we need to be ready to abandon our views about them.
Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.
The poets are only the interpreters of the Gods.
Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed: for prosperity does best discover vice, but adversity does best discover virtue.
Do the thing we fear, and the death of fear is certain.
Flow with whatever may happen, and let your mind be free: Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.
George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie.
Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.
Better be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.
Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
Sobriety, severity, and self-respect are the foundations of all true sociality.
