It doesn’t matter that your dream came true if you spent your whole life sleeping.
Men are born to succeed, not to fail.
It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually.
There are a lot of people who lie and get away with it, and that’s just a fact.
The way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together: so it is a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate.
Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness – an open and noble temper.
Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.
So different are the colors of life, as we look forward to the future, or backward to the past; and so different the opinions and sentiments which this contrariety of appearance naturally produces, that the conversation of the old and young ends generally with contempt or pity on either side.
You may try but you can never imagine what it is to have a man’s form of genius in you, and to suffer the slavery of being a girl.
The essence of greatness is the perception that virtue is enough.
There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.
I really do not see much use in exalting the humble and meek; they do not remain humble and meek long when they are exalted.
Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business.
While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God’s creation.
Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.
Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison.
Nothing is more important than reconnecting with your bliss. Nothing is as rich. Nothing is more real.
All colors will agree in the dark.
The office of the scholar is to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances. He plies the slow, unhonored, and unpaid task of observation. He is the world’s eye.
Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress.
If you miss the present moment, you miss your appointment with life. That is very serious!
