We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided.
Your thorns are the best part of you.
Poetry is an echo asking a shadow to dance.
I try to learn one new thing a week to balance the one thing I forget a week, but lately I forget three things a week.
Man's responsibility increases as that of the gods decreases.
The best course was to buy a house across a road from a cemetery and look at it every morning. Reminding yourself where it all ended anyway, you'd never get upset about anything again.
Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life.
Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man's substance with invisible teeth.
Being human, we should bear all we can.
Cherish forever what makes you unique, 'cuz you're really a yawn if it goes!
The fool shouts loudly, thinking to impress the world.
Put your heart, mind, intellect, and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.
We all lose our looks eventually, better develop your character and interest in life.
They who are the most persistent, and work in the true spirit, will invariably be the most successful.
The happy people are those who are producing something.
None are so blind as those who will not see.
I always keep myself in a position of being a student.
He will hew the line of right, let the chips fall where they may.
Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness, it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind.