It is sometimes best to slip over thoughts and not go to the bottom of them.

Not to find pleasure in serious reading gives a pastel coloring to the mind.

There is no real evil in life, except great pain; all the rest is imaginary, and depends on the light in which we view things

The heart has no wrinkles.

We are never satisfied with having done well; and in endeavoring to do better, we do much worse.

If we could have a little patience, we should escape much mortification; time takes away as much as it gives.

When I step into this library, I cannot understand why I ever step out of it.

There are twelve hours in the day, and above fifty in the night.

I dislike clocks with second-hands; they cut up life into too small pieces.

I know of no sorrow greater than that occasioned by a delay of the post.

... we ought to be astonished at nothing; for what do we not meet with in our journey through life?

The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.

Break my mirror-heart into a thousand pieces my beloved, so that to the world i may proudly flaunt your thousand reflections

Machines have altered our way of life, but not our instincts. Consequently, there is maladjustment.

Flood your mind continually with pictures of the health, happiness, and prosperity that you desire.

Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion!

Women asking for raises should not only know their value, but they should ask with the confidence that they're helping the company to be successful.

There is a remedy for everything but death; who, in spite of our teeth, will take us in his clutches.

Each book is, in a sense, an argument with myself, and I would write it, whether it is ever published or not.

If you play to win as I do, the game never ends.

Untilled soil, however fertile it may be, will bear thistles and thorns; so it is with man's mind.