I am inclined to believe that a man may be free to do anything he pleases if only he will accept responsibility for whatever he does.

a successful politician does not have convictions; he has emotions.

The nearer she came to death, the more, by some perversity of nature, did she enjoy living.

1. Always wait between books for the springs to fill up and flow over. 2. Always preserve within a wild sanctuary, an inaccessible valley of reveries. 3. Always, and as far as it is possible, endeavor to touch life on every side; but keep the central vision of the mind, the inmost light, untouched and untouchable.

No, one couldn't make a revolution, one couldn't even start a riot, with sheep that asked only for better browsing.

No life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it for example by seeing it how it could be worse and then being grateful it isn't.

It is human nature to overestimate the thing you've never had.