“We forge the chains we wear in life.”

It’s in vain to recall the past, unless it works some influence upon the present.

I have made up my mind that I must have money, Pa. I feel that I can’t beg it, borrow it, or steal it; and so I have resolved that I must marry it.

The world belongs to those who set out to conquer it armed with self confidence and good humor.

A day wasted on others is not wasted on one’s self.

Everybody said so. Far be it from me to assert that what everybody says must be true. Everybody is, often, as likely to be wrong as right.

I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me.

Do all the good you can and make as little fuss about it as possible.

Some people are nobody’s enemies but their own.

It is an old prerogative of kings to govern everything but their passions.

Every failure teaches a man something, if he will learn; and you are too sensible a man not to learn from this failure.

Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!

To a young heart everything is fun.

Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.

It is the last straw that breaks the camel’s back.

True love believes everything, and bears everything, and trusts everything.

I loved you madly; in the distasteful work of the day, in the wakeful misery of the night, girded by sordid realities, or wandering through Paradises and Hells of visions into which I rushed, carrying your image in my arms, I loved you madly.

That best portion of a good man’s life— His little, nameless, unremembered acts Of kindness and of love.

In order to seek truth, it is necessary once in the course of our life to doubt, as far as possible, of all things

Life taught me the most important journey is the one within I am really grateful for that today even though I learned it the hard way.

Whatever is true of life let it not be true of love, love surely lives much longer in paintings and in poetry.

I hope you find someone who dances to the beat of your soul, so you never have to sit alone in life while the music plays.

For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.

Life is only precious when you know how to live. Otherwise, its just a slow walk to the graveyard.

For once I wanna look back and not sigh.