What would be the use of immortality to a person who cannot use well a half an hour?
True friends are two people who are comfortable sharing silence together.
What is the hardest task in the world? To think.
There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried.
A child reminds us that playtime is an essential part of our daily routine.
Flowers are the earth laughing.
Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it. The man who knows how will always have a job. The man who also knows why will always be his boss. As to methods there may be a million and then some, but principles are few. The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods. The man who tries methods, ignoring principles, is sure to have trouble.
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.
Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.
Life is our dictionary.
I didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me.
When believers and unbelievers live in the same manner - I distrust the religion.
Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished.
Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine.
Men are what their mothers made them.
The next best thing to saying a good thing yourself is to quote one.
What you are comes to you.
The wise man in the storm prays God not for safety from danger but for deliverance from fear. It is the storm within which endangers him[,] not the storm without.
Perception is a mirror not a fact. And what I look on is my state of mind, reflected outward.
I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.
On the other side, the conservative party, composed of the most moderate, able, and cultivated part of the population, is timid, and merely defensive of property. It vindicates no right, it aspires to no real good, it brands no crime, it proposes no generous policy, it does not build, nor write, nor cherish the arts, nor foster religion, nor establish schools, nor encourage science, nor emancipate the slave, nor befriend the poor, or the Indian, or the immigrant.
A deep man believes that the evil eye can whither, the heart's blessing can heal, and that love can overcome all odds.
What your heart thinks is great, is great. The soul's emphasis is always right.
That which dominates our imagination and our thoughts will determine our life and character.
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