Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer.
We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.
Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.
Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws. She hums the old well-known air through innumerable variations.
Desire is possibility seeking expression.
Our best thoughts come from others.
There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.
Ten percent of people can think, another ten percent of people think that they think, and eighty percent of people would rather die than be made to think.
It is impossible for a man to be cheated by anyone but himself.
Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success. When you do a thing, do it with all your might.
Knowledge exists to be imparted.
The world is so beautiful that I can hardly believe it exists.
Everything has its price - and if that price is not paid, not that thing but something else is obtained... it is impossible to get anything without this price.
Love, and you shall be loved.
You shall have joy, or you shall have power, said God; you shall not have both.
Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness, - an open and noble temper.
It all begins when the soul would have its way with you.
The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people.
We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.
Postpone not your life.
You never know how you look through other people's eyes.
Money is of no value; it cannot spend itself. All depends on the skill of the spender.
Can anybody remember when the times were not hard and money not scarce?
[T]omorrow is a new day. You shall begin it well & serenely, & with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense. This day ... is too dear with its hopes & invitations to waste a moment on the rotten yesterdays.
Art is a jealous mistress; and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.
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