Our desires, once realized, haunt us again less readily.
Every great crisis of human history is a pass of Thermopylae, and there is always a Leonidas and his three hundred to die in it, if they can not conquer.
Happiness lies, first of all, in health.
A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.
The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.
It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.
I walked beside the evening sea And dreamed a dream that could not be; The waves that plunged along the shore Said only: "Dreamer, dream no more!"
If you are alone you belong entirely to yourself.
We scarcely know how much of our pleasure and interest in life comes to us through our eyes until we have to do without them; and part of that pleasure is that the eyes can choose where to look. But the ears can't choose where to listen.
It is an amiable part of human nature, that we should love our animals; it is even better to love them to the point of folly, than not to love them at all.
I don't really want to go into my problems with the team at the time except to say that no one's ever had to pay me to play basketball.