All beginnings are delightful; the threshold is the place to pause.

To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.

A man's name is not like a mantle which merely hangs about him...but a perfectly fitting garment, which, like the skin, has grown over him, at which one cannot rake and scrape without injuring the man himself.

Of the truly creative no one is ever master; it must be left to go its own way.

Our passions are true phoenixes; as the old burn out the new straight rise up from the ashes.

What do people mean when they talk about unhappiness? It is not so much unhappiness as impatience that from time to time possesses men, and then they choose to call themselves miserable.

If a good person does you wrong, act as though you had not noticed it. If we practice and eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, soon the wholeworld will be blind and toothless.