The mind conscious of innocence despises false reports: but we are a set always ready to believe a scandal.

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.

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

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.

No matter how short or long your journey to your accomplishment is, if you don't begin you can't get there. Beginning is difficult, but unavoidable!

Complaints are prayers to the devil.

I am in love and out of it I will not go.

Consider the case of a person who holds a view with probability 1. Then coherence says that it is no use having a debate with them because nothing will change their mind.

Technology is always creating jobs. It's always destroying jobs.

No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.

...all the most acute, most powerful, and most deadly diseases, and those which are most difficult to be understood by the inexperienced, fall upon the brain.

The longing for sweets is really a yearning for love or sweetness.

The devil is not, indeed, perfectly humorous, but that is only because he is the extreme of all humor.

You know, be an actor because you love to act. Don't be an actor because you think you're going to get famous, because that's luck.