The world is a thing that a man must learn to despise, and even to neglect, before he can learn to reverence it, and work in it and for it.

Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist.

He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.

Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Endurance is patience concentrated.

I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom.

A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.

We're so busy watching out for what's just ahead of us that we don't take time to enjoy where we are.

The tunnel is lit at long intervals, so in the dark space between each dim lamp, I fear that I am lost until a shoulder bumps mine. In the circles of light I am safe again.

Those who make hostility a daily manner are often left in the lurch at difficult times.

Denial is not just a river in Egypt.

It's a good place when all you have is hope and not expectations.

It is a happiness to wonder; -- it is a happiness to dream.

I have a quiet and an artistic side that many people don't know of.

Tis very great pity that they who are so apt to over-rate themselves in smaller matters, shou'd, where it most concerns them to know, and stand upon their Value, be so insensible of their own worth.

No one is coming to save you.

Regardless of what you do put in, every game boils down to doing the things you do best and doing them over and over again.