Sarah Hedit

No matter how much or how little I knew technically, I was able to get the best out of people I worked with.

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.

Only poetry inspires poetry.

Failure is an important part of your growth and developing resilience. Don’t be afraid to fail.

In traveling, a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge.

We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.

Tear thyself from delay.

For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.

Listening to both sides does not necessarily bring about a correct judgment.

Riches are for spending.

To cease smoking is the easiest thing I ever did. I ought to know, I’ve done it a thousand times.

Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.

It isn’t safe to sit in judgment upon another person’s illusion when you are not on the inside. While you are thinking it is a dream, he may be knowing it is a planet.

Fear follows crime and is its punishment.

There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits not because recompense is a pleasure for them, but because obligation is a pain.