Nothing’s beautiful from every point of view.
Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.
Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety.
Should not every apartment in which man dwells be lofty enough to create some obscurity overhead, where flickering shadows may play at evening about the rafters?
When you’ve worked hard, and done well, and walked through that doorway of opportunity, you do not slam it shut behind you. You reach back, and you give other folks the same chances that helped you succeed.
Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.
We have a problem. Congratulations. But it’s a tough problem. Then double congratulations.
I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and new.
It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.
Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough.
He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.
As a rule, adversity reveals genius and prosperity hides it.
It is in these acts called trivialities that the seeds of joy are forever wasted, until men and women look round with haggard faces at the devastation their own waste has made, and say, the earth bears no harvest of sweetness – calling their denial knowledge.
A lawyers dream of heaven; every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.
The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.
Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.
Let your character be kept up the very end, just as it began, and so be consistent.
All of humanity is living in a dream world, but suffering real consequences.
What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real.
Men being born with a title to perfect freedom and uncontrolled enjoyment of all the rights and privileges of the law of nature . . . no one can be put out of his estate and subjected to the political view of another, without his consent.
Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people.
