He who demands little gets it.
The only difference between a rut and a grave are the dimensions.
Passion alone could destroy passion. All the thinking in the world could not make so much as a dent in its surface.
though pleasure may be purchasable, happiness cannot be bought for a price.
There is in every human being, I think, a native country of the mind, where, protected by inaccessible barriers, the sensitive dream life may exist safely.
I waited and worked, and watched the inferior exalted for nearly thirty years; and when recognition came at last, it was too late to alter events, or to make a difference in living.