“Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.”

Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.

Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.

He who has no vision of eternity has no hold on time.

Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.

It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.

Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.

Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.

Endurance is patience concentrated.

Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.

See deep enough, and you see musically.

A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Without kindness there can be no true joy.

There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.

The first duty of man is that of subduing fear.

But I didn’t understand then. That I could hurt somebody so badly she would never recover. That a person can, just by living, damage another human being beyond repair.

Love is boundless. Human energy is not.

Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.

A bitter truth: some people are comfortable with your acceptance of their abuse.⁣

People who cannot see through souls will keep searching for beauty in faces and will never find it.

I read one thing, and 100 people can say good things then you read one bad thing that says you’re the worst and you believe them.

Don’t let anyone take away your power.