The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
If you don't like someone's story, write your own.
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.
Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.
The experience gathered from books, though often valuable,is but the nature of learning whereas the experience gained from actual life is of the nature of wisdom.
We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.
A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.
Desire is poverty. Desire is the greatest impurity of the mind. Desire is the motive force for action. Desire in the mind is the real impurity. Even a spark of desire is a very great evil.
He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.
Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.
A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable and always unacceptable.
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom; justice; honor; duty; mercy; hope.
The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.
When prosperity comes, do not use all of it.
Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.
Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.
Dark and difficult times lie ahead. Soon we must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy.
Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.
You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean, in a drop.