Hitch your wagon to a star.
We are as much informed of a writer’s genius by what he selects as by what he originates.
Some of your grief you have cured, and lived to survive; but what torments of pain have you endured that haven’t as yet arrived.
How many attractions for us have our passing fellows in the streets, both male and female, which our ethics forbid us to express, which yet infuse so much pleasure into life. A lovely child, a handsome youth, a beautiful girl, a heroic man, a maternal woman, a venerable old man, charm us, though strangers, and we cannot say so, or look at them but for a moment.
Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.
Of all debts men are least willing to pay the taxes. What a satire is this on government! Everywhere they think they get their moneys worth, except for these.
Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor.
My emancipation don’t fit your equation.
Why level downward to our dullest perception always, and praise that as common sense? The commonest sense is the sense of men asleep, which they express by snoring.
I encourage you to live with life. Be courageous, adventurous. Give us a tomorrow, more than we deserve.
Well, dearie, men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability. But you can’t blame them for that, can you?
The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.
There are no people who are quite so vulgar as the over-refined.
Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
You may not always have a comfortable life and you will not always be able to solve all of the world’s problems at once but don’t ever underestimate the importance you can have because history has shown us that courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own.
True godliness does not turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it and excites their endeavors to mend it.
It generally happens that assurance keeps an even pace with ability.
One of the most attractive things about the flowers is their beautiful reserve.
A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man’s life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.
The mouth obeys poorly when the heart murmurs.
Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.
