Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand. ... Simplify, simplify.
Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.
The strongest man is the one who stands most alone.
Activity in back of a very small idea will produce more than inactivity and the planning of a genius.
I give the fight up; let there be an end, A privacy, an obscure nook for me, I want to be forgotten even by God.
When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
Discretion is not the better part of biography.
Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees.
Fashion exists for women with no taste, etiquette for people with no breeding.
Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.
Live as you will wish to have lived when you are dying.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.
Den I wish I was in Dixie, Hooray! Hooray! In Dixie Land I'll take my stand To lib and die in Dixie.
Every moderate drinker could abandon the intoxicating cup if he would; every inebriate would if he could.
Custom reconciles us to everything.
Oh, may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again.
Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
I never went to bed in my life and I never ate a meal in my life without saying a prayer. I know my prayers have been answered thousands of times, and I know that I never said a prayer in my life without something good coming of it.
The parents exist to teach the child, but also they must learn what the child has to teach them; and the child has a very great deal to teach them.