To quit smoking, you must first want to quit, but then you must also do the quitting

What a torment it is to see so much loveliness passing and repassing before us, and yet not dare to lay hold of it!

Where confidence is wanting, the most beautiful flower in the garland of love is missing.

The safest thing is always to try to convert everything that is in us and around us into action; let the others talk and argue about it as they please.

The really unhappy person is the one who leaves undone what they can do, and starts doing what they don't understand; no wonder they come to grief.

Poor fool! in whose petty estimation all things are little.

Publishers are all cohorts of the devil; there must be a special hell for them somewhere.