You don't deserve the anger you're turning on yourself. Your abuser's the one who does.

Reading is of course dry work, and further refreshment was called for and consumed.

Sometimes, when we are sad, we have to do the opposite of sad. Sometimes we have to sing.

Doubt whom you will but never yourself.

A long healthy life is no accident. It begins with good genes, but it also depends on good habits.

If you have no goals you will be bored: you will be unhappy because you are empty.

There is no beauty without some strangeness

The paynefull smith, with force of fervent heat, The hardest yron soone doth mollify, That with his heavy sledge he can it beat, And fashion it to what he it list apply.

Reason teaches us that what is good is good for something, and that what is good for nothing is not good at all.

Conversion is not implanting eyes, for they exist already; but giving them a right direction, which they have not

Books are necessary to correct the vices of the polite; but those vices are ever changing, and the antidote should be changed accordingly should still be new.