There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.
If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them.
Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me.
Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.
Sorrow makes us children again.
You who write, choose a subject suited to your abilities and think long and hard on what your powers are equal to and what they are unable to perform.
A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget.
You. Not wanting me. Was the beginning of me wanting myself. Thank you.
Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.
Blame is safer than praise.
It is a happy talent to know how to play.
My life has been one great big joke, a dance that’s walked a song that’s spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself.
I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I am not afraid of falling into my inkpot.
Let us then try what love can do to mend a broken world.
He is armed without who is innocent within, be this thy screen, and this thy wall of brass.
Who prays for Satan? Who, in 1,800 years, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?
Only poetry inspires poetry.
As soon as there is life there is danger.
To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.
Responsibility is the price of greatness.
I’m only a beer teetotaler, not a champagne teetotaler.
