Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.

My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope.

A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Make the workmanship surpass the materials.

Love is no assignment for cowards.

Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.

The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.

Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.

If you want to be loved, be lovable.

Venus favors the bold.

Don’t carry the weight of the world on you Jace. It’s too heavy for even a Herondale to bear.

Think it. Write it. Sell it.

The most important purpose of education is to learn how to find the beauty of life.

all my lifei have looked for poemsto elope with.

…she felt depressed beyond any thing she had ever known before.

The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury. [and therefore not appreciate it fully or be grateful for it every moment.]

Nobody likes to feel like they're on the losing side of anything.

The human personality has no limitations except those which it accepts.

Avoid hot stocks in hot industries.

I grew up in this Southern Baptist atmosphere, and my mother and father were both, I guess you would say, academics. They were both teachers.