Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves.
Standing on the doorstep of desire, I hold this bouquet like a gun and these vows like a petition for the death penalty.
Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two. This you cannot do without temperance.
Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary.
If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much.
Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.
Physically there is nothing to distinguish human society from the farm-yard except that children are more troublesome and costly than chickens and calves and that men and women are not so completely enslaved as farm stock.
Every man I meet is in some way my superior.
If you strike a child, take care that you strike it in anger, even at the risk of maiming it for life. A blow in cold blood neither can nor should be forgiven.
There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.
For every why he had a wherefore.
Women tell men things that they are not likely to find out for themselves.
Self-suggestion makes you master of yourself.
We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks, if we agree with him.
Life is short, but there is always time for courtesy.
What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing about the origin and destiny of cats?
Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.
The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.
No question is so difficult to answer as that which the answer is obvious.
The greatest gift is the ability to forget – to forget the bad things and focus on the good.
The receipts of cookery are swelled to a volume; but a good stomach excels them all.
