But besides that I was of an unforgiving disposition from my birth, slow to take offense, slower to forget it, and now incensed both against my companion and myself.
I want to know, Barbecue: how long are.
Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
We advance in years somewhat in the manner of an invading army in a barren land; the age that we have reached, as the saying goes, we but hold with an outpost, and still keep open communications with the extreme rear and first beginnings of the march.
The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.
I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.
We consume the carcasses of creatures with like appetites, passions, and organs as our own. We feed on babes, though not our own, and fill the slaughter-houses daily with screams of pain and fear.
Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.
Make the most of the best and the least of the worst.
That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
The person who has stopped being thankful has fallen asleep in life.
Everyone who got where he is has had to begin where he was.
You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
Make up your mind to be happy. Learn to find pleasure in simple things.
Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.
I sat in the sun on a bench; the animal within me licking the chops of memory; the spiritual side a little drowsed, promising subsequent penitence, but not yet moved to begin.
Although I express myself with some degree of pleasantry, the purport of my words is entirely serious.
Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.