It takes hard writing to make easy reading.
Let any man speak long enough, he will get believers.
There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
I consider the success of my day based on the seeds I sow, not the harvest I reap.
I have resolved that from this day on, I will do all the business I can honestly, have all the fun I can reasonably, do all the good I can willingly, and save my digestion by thinking pleasantly.
A great part of this life consists in contemplating what we cannot cure.
Money alone is only a mean; it presupposes a man to use it. The rich man can go where he pleases, but perhaps please himself nowhere. He can buy a library or visit the whole world, but perhaps has neither patience to read nor intelligence to see.... The purse may be full and the heart empty. He may have gained the world and lost himself; and with all his wealth around him ... he may live as blank a life as any tattered ditcher.
There is but one art, to omit.
The difficulty is not to write, but to write what you mean.
Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.
He is not dead, this friend; not dead, Gone some few, trifling steps ahead, And nearer to the end; So that you, too, once past the bend, Shall meet again, as face to face, this friend You fancy dead.
Love- what is love? A great and aching heart; Wrung hands; and silence; and a long despair
To know what you like is the beginning of wisdom and of old age. Youth is wholly experimental. The essence and charm of that unquiet and delightful epoch is ignorance of self as well as ignorance of life.
Everyone who got where he is has had to begin where he was.
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
To have suffered ... sets a keen edge on what remains of the agreeable. This is a great truth and has to be learned in the fire.
The true success is to labour.
Do not write merely to be understood. Write so you cannot possibly be misunderstood.
I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
I've a grand memory for forgetting.
The best things are nearest: breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of God just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life's plain common work as it comes certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things of life.
Sir, with no intention to take offence, I deny your right to put words into my mouth.
To love is the great amulet that makes this world a garden.
To forget oneself is to be happy.
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