The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.
It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
Destiny is not a passive agent that lies in the lap of the Gods, but is an active instrument that lies in your own hands to shape as you will.
Think no vice so small that you may commit it, and no virtue so small that you may over look it.
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.
All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything.
Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.
Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.
It’s your road and yours alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you.
Judge not unless you judge yourself.
And no one will listen to us until we listen to ourselves.
Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
Stupidity is a talent for misconception.
Obsession is the wellspring of genius and madness.
I think, therefore I am.
Kind words don't cost much. Yet they accomplish much.
Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
One just needs a little alertness to see and find out: Life is really a great cosmic laughter.
Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.
