If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.
We were a silent, hidden thought in the folds of oblivion, and we have become a voice that causes the heavens to tremble.
Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour for we are members one of another.
Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters.
A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.
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The trust I have is in mine innocence, and therefore am I bold and resolute.
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought'.
Blessed are the cracked For they shall let in the light.
As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.
To live as one likes is plebian the noble man aspires to order and law.
Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.
I'm not interested in having an orchestra sound like itself. I want it to sound like the composer.
He then learns that in going down into the secrets of his own mind he has descended into the secrets of all minds.
The wit makes fun of other persons the satirist makes fun of the world the humorist makes fun of himself.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
Enjoy things which are pleasant that is not the evil it is the reducing of our moral self to slavery by them that is.
That was and still is the great disaster of my life-that lovely, lovely little boy.