“You can never be wise unless you love reading.”

The misery of man proceeds not from any single crush of overwhelming evil, but from small vexations continually repeated.

What is easy is seldom excellent.

Liberty is, to the lowest rank of every nation, little more than the choice of working or starving.

When any calamity is suffered, the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.

None but a fool worries about things he cannot influence.

A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.

When there is no hope, there can be no endeavor.

No man was ever great by imitation.

To preserve health is a moral and religious duty: for health is the basis of all social virtues; and we can be useful no longer than while we are well.

From thee, great God, we spring, to thee we tend,- Path, motive, guide, original, and end.

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing – it only hastens fools to rush in where angels fear to tread.

Our aspirations are our possibilities.

When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.

The majority have no other reason for their opinions than that they are the fashion.

The true art of memory is the art of attention.

Prejudice, not being founded on reason, cannot be removed by argument.

The best use of life is love. The best expression of love is time. The best time to love is now.

Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.

I love how British guys dress for the cold.

A puppet is free as long as he loves his strings.

Your love is the fuel to my soul.

A hello from you can still bring me to my knees, set me free. More than any goodbye ever could.

There is no longer him in her words or heart or mind, finally she is only hers.

The more that I learn I have found poetry to be less about love and more about survival.