The master proves himselin recognizing his limitations.
One lives but once in the world.
The flowers of life are but illusions. How many fade away and leave no trace.
The proper place for liberality is in the realm of the emotions.
Let no one be like another, yet everyone like the highest. How is this done? Be each one perfect in himself.
Hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.
He is happy as well as great who needs neither to obey nor to command in order to be something.
Ah! my poor brain is racked and crazed, My spirit and senses amazed!
If we meet someone who owes us a debt of gratitude, we remember the fact at once. How often we can meet someone to whom we owe a debt of gratitude without thinking about it at all!
If man thinks about his physical or moral state he usually discovers that he is ill.
Painting and tattooing the body is a return to animalism.
To quit smoking, you must first want to quit, but then you must also do the quitting.
The destiny of any nation at any given time depends on the opinion of its young people, those under twenty-five.
Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.
All truths are old, and all that we have to do is recognize and utter them anew.
There is no crime of which I do not deem myself capable.
The person of analytic or critical intellect finds something ridiculous in everything. The person of synthetic or constructive intellect, in almost nothing.
Strike the dog dead, it’s but a critic!
A life without love, without the presence of the beloved, is nothing but a mere magic-lantern show. We draw out slide after slide, swiftly tiring of each, and pushing it back to make haste for the next.
The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. Whatever you think you can do, or believe you can do, begin it. Action has magic, power and grace.