I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship.

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.

I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.

If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.

No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. Thank you.

The voice of reason is more to be regarded than the bent of any present inclination; since inclination will at length come over to reason, though we can never force reason to comply with inclination.

Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life.

Everybody means by an open mind, a mind which contains their prejudices but not somebody else's.

It is not the straining for great things that is most effective it is the doing the little things the common duties a little better and better.

Bottom line, when someone defensively says their way of writing is their style, then that usually means they're making an excuse for poor prose.

I've never had an easy relationship with critics. I hold a lot of homicide in my heart. If this was another time, I'd be packing a piece.

An artist needs to live to create, and to live means to suffer.

I thought that because I wasn't a sickly person - I never have been - I thought I was healthy. So I assumed health. I didn't have it.

Without your knowledge, the eyes and ears of many will see and watch you, as they have done already.

For me writing has always felt like praying even when I wasn't writing prayers.

No man can be held throughout the day by what happens throughout the night.

A terrible depression yesterday. Visions of my life petering out into a kind of soft-brained stupor from lack of use.