Love should make joy; but our benevolence is unhappy. Our Sunday-schools, and churches, and pauper-societies are yokes to the neck. We pain ourselves to please nobody.

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

When a man is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something.

Beauty without expression tires.

Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.

Life Is a Journey, Not a Destination.

Every sunset brings the promise of a new dawn

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.

Lord help my poor soul.

I'm trying to think but nothing happens. ~ Curlie. That feeling I get with writer's block!

Everyone understands that in a modern economy - transparency, accountability, a working justice system are part of having a functioning, modern society.

I still got the nasty in me.

You can't expect that, after a poor fellow has written a book, he should also understand it.

It was hard to know what was worse: him being with her and all her sisters, or him being with none of them because his heart was held by another. -Cormia

I'm surprised sometimes at how some of my actions are misinterpreted.

No doubt exists that all women are crazy; it's only a question of degree.

If all politicians fished instead of spoke publicly, we would be at peace with the world.

Can not the One who gives life to dead land, give life to dead hearts?