I am not able to instruct you. I can only tell that I have chosen wrong. I have passed my time in study without experience; in the attainment of sciences which can, for the most part, be but remotely useful to mankind. I have purchased knowledge at the expense of all the common comforts of life: I have missed the endearing elegance of female friendship, and the happy commerce of domestic tenderness.
The key to every man is his thought. He can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which commands his own.
Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.
Suspicion is most often useless pain.
If you have good thoughts, they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.
Every man believes that he has greater possibilities.
The sky was the color of hard crimson, dripping down a canvas, the moon splashed silver across red. Her soothing balm healing my soul in swathes of calmness, I breathe in her tides and let my body be washed ashore, lying in the sands of eternity.
Life consists in what a person is thinking of all day.
Everything’s fine today, that is our illusion.
I could not find the world if I searched ten years. I’ve forgotten the road by which I came.
Knowledge comes by eyes always open and working hands; and there is no knowledge that is not power.
Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason.
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
Be true to your own act and congratulate yourself if you have done something strange and extravagant to break the monotony of a decorous age.
Life is tough, my darling, but so are you.
Tis God gives skill, but not without men’s hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius’s violins without Antonio.
If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not an example.
It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?
A man’s true delight is to do the things he was made for.
The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.
The beginning is the most important part of the work.
