Until we have begun to go without them, we fail to realize how unnecessary many things are. We've been using them not because we needed them but because we had them.

The man who spends his time choosing one resort after another in a hunt for peace and quiet will in every place he visits find something to prevent him from relaxing.

Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.

To win true freeedom you must be a slave to philosophy.

Believe me if you consult philosophy she will persuade you not to lit so long at your counting desk

I have learned to be a friend to myself Great improvement this indeed Such a one can never be said to be alone for know that he who is a friend to himself is a friend to all mankind

Reflect that nothing merits admiration except thespirit, the impressiveness of which prevents it from being impressed by anything.

There is no enjoying the possession of anything valuable unless one has someone to share it with

Because thou writest me often, I thank thee ... Never do I receive a letter from thee, but immediately we are together.

A woman is not beautiful when her ankle or arm wins compliments, but when her total appearance diverts admiration from the individual parts of her body.

Words need to be sown like seeds. No matter how tiny a seed may be, when in lands in the right sort of ground it unfolds its strength and from being minute expands and grows to a massive size.

You say you are a poet of law

There are different kinds of love you experience in life. Loving someone differently doesn't mean loving a person less than you love someone else. Love is love.

If you profess to be a Christian, yet find full satisfaction in worldly pleasures and pursuits, your profession is false.

Do not treat others as you yourself would not be treated.

I played lots of games and I was a fan of gaming, so I was always looking for new games.

I was just taking her hand to help her out of a car and I knew. It was like... magic.

How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!

the brain, the mind, and all the things that happen inside it, it's a very erogenous zone.

Should and would build no bridges.

I never bought the idea of individual genius from which the novel spews forth. It's always an act of curation.