“When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.”

The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.

Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.

I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

There are but two ways of paying debt: Increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in laying out.

Who is it that loves me and will love me forever with an affection which no chance, no misery, no crime of mine can do away? It is you, my mother.

Silence is more eloquent than words.

The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.

The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.

Teach a parrot the terms ‘supply and demand’ and you’ve got an economist.

Love is not altogether a Delirium, says he elsewhere; “yet has it many points in common therewith.”

Democracy means despair of finding any heroes to govern you, and contented putting up with the want of them.

A man protesting against error is on the way towards uniting himself with all men that believe in truth.

Do not be embarrassed by your mistakes. Nothing can teach us better than our understanding of them. This is one of the best ways of self-education.

The past is always attractive because it is drained of fear.

There is precious instruction to be got by finding we were wrong.

A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy.

And so being young and dipped in folly I fell in love with melancholy.

Falling in love, you remain a child; rising in love, you mature. By and by love becomes not a relationship, it becomes a state of your being. Not that you are in love – now you are love.

Every family needs to have one person they can count on when everything falls apart.

In efforts to soar above our nature, we invariably fall below it.

When we screw up or fall down, many of us talk to ourselves in ways that we would never talk to someone we love and respect.

I wanted to tell you that my whole being opened for you. Since I fell in love with you everything is transformed and is full of beauty – love is like an aroma, like a current, like rain.

I’m a human being and I fall in love and sometimes I don’t have control of every situation.

I’m a human being and I fall in love and sometimes I don’t have control of every situation.