Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is from the top.

The man who begins to go to bed forty minutes before he opens his bedroom door is bored; that is to say, he is not living.

There is no magic method of beginning... Take hold of your nerves, and jump.

The only way to write a great book is to write it with the eyes of a child who sees things for the first time.

You can only acquire really useful general ideas by first acquiring particular ideas . . . You cannot make bricks without straw.

The chances are that you have already come to believe that happiness is unattainable. But men have attained it. And they have attained it by realizing that happiness does not spring from the procuring of physical or mental pleasure, but from the development of reason and the adjustment of conduct to principles.