Commerce is greedy. Ideology is blood-thirsty.
If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.
Around, around the sun we go: The moon goes round the earth. We do not die of death: We die of vertigo.
Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.
A feeling of sadness and longing that is not akin to pain, and resembles sorrow only as the mist resembles the rain.
I was never less alone than when by myself.,
Cleaning your house while your children are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.
The first petition that we are to make to Almighty God is for a good conscience, the next for health of mind, and then of body.
Strong hope is a much greater stimulant of life than any single realized joy could be.
Necessity of action takes away the fear of the act.
Fame is but the breath of the people, and that often unwholesome.
If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
Each day, each hour, an entire life.
If cold December gave you birth, The month of snow and ice and mirth, Place on your hand a turquoise blue, Success will bless what'er you do.
Friendship is a word the very sight of which in print makes the heart warm.
What costs nothing is worth nothing.
I think one reason we admire cats, those of us who do, is their proficiency in one-upmanship. They always seem to come out on top, no matter what they are doing - or pretend they do. Rarely do you see a cat discomfited. They have no conscience, and they never regret. Maybe we secretly envy them.
The same reason makes a man a religious enthusiast that makes a man an enthusiast in any other way: an uncomfortable mind in an uncomfortable body.
Can anything be sadder than work unfinished? Yes; work never begun.
It is easier to catch flies with honey than with vinegar.