Fortune favors the audacious.

Besides, it happens (how, I cannot tell) that an idea launched like a javelin in proverbial form strikes with sharper point on the hearer's mind and leaves implanted barbs for meditation.

The chief element of happiness is this: to want to be what you are.

By burning Luther's books you may rid your bookshelves of him, but you will not rid men's minds of him.

It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.

If you look at history you'll find that no state has been so plagued by its rulers as when power has fallen into the hands of some dabbler in philosophy or literary addict.

Heaven grant that the burden you carry may have as easy an exit as it had an entrance. Prayer To A Pregnant Woman