I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business. 657
All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning. 641
No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well. 612
There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone. 549
The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready. 594
I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will. 572
There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself. 2.27K
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. 2.63K
We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success. 1.28K
I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. 652
