Nathan Craoll

Life is short, but there is always time for courtesy.

It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.

The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain.

The German intellect wants the French sprightliness, the fine practical understanding of the English, and the American adventure; but it has a certain probity, which never rests in a superficial performance, but asks steadily, To what end? A German public asks for a controlling sincerity.

Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.

If you do not take control over your time and your life, other people will gobble it up. If you don’t prioritize yourself, you constantly start falling lower and lower on your list.

Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.

Kings are not born they are made by universal hallucination.

Every revolution was first a thought in one man’s mind.

Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.

To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.

What a new face courage puts on everything!

If you protect a man from folly, you will soon have a nation of fools.

Every stroke our fury strikes is sure to hit ourselves at last.