John Ruskin

Think about all of the times, situations, and circumstances where you have gotten caught up in making your self right rather than happy… The harder you fight to win, the bigger you lose.

[On leaving Brooklyn] I left the day I graduated high school.

If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.

Even in the presence of others he was completely alone.

If you go into a union, they have got you, but what have you got?

The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.

No one can be helped unless he can be put in the way of helping himself.

Like all things vast and beautiful, I want to know the depths of which you exist. It has never been enough to wade in the shallows.

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

You must do the things you think you cannot do.

Buy what thou hast no Need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy Necessaries.

Life is trying things to see if they work.

It is bad luck to be superstitious.

Spring is the time of plans and projects.

Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason.