One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.
— James Russell Lowell
Not failure, but low aim, is crime.
The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.
Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.
Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.
In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak.
It is by presence of mind in untried emergencies that the native metal of man is tested.
Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.
All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.
Death is delightful. Death is dawn, The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto truth and light.
Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.
Incredulity robs us of many pleasures, and gives us nothing in return.
The greatest homage we can pay to truth, is to use it.
Who's not sat tense before his own heart's curtain.
Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.
Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.
