Every old poem is sacred.
If you wish me to weep, you must first show grief yourself.
Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.
Usually the modest person passes for someone reserved, the silent for a sullen person.
Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.
Believe that each day that shines on you is your last.
A good scare is worth more than good advice.
I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals, as surely as the savage tribes have left off eating each other when they came in contact with the more civilized.
Laughter is the greatest weapon we have and we, as humans, use it the least.
As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.
Your fingers caress my heart strings, shaping a silent sonnet in notes of love. Transcending space and time, bathing the ether in perfect harmony.
Achievement brings its own anticlimax.
Look to make your course regular, that men may know beforehand what they may expect.
Covetousness is the greatest of monsters, as well as the root of all evil.
It takes two to speak truth – one to speak, and another to hear.
The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lift human life above the level of farce and give it some of the grace of tragedy.
Amidst all the clutter, beyond all the obstacles, aside from all the static, are the goals set. Put your head down, do the best job possible, let the flak pass, and work towards those goals.
When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions…
The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
Nothing is so exhilarating in life as to be shot at with no result.
Be an opener of doors.
Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.