Nothing is perfect. Therefore, being perfect is being nothing… and that's a great way to lose weight.
Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man
Writing has. . . been to me like a bath from which I have risen feeling cleaner, healthier, and freer.
To live is to war with trolls.
A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
Public opinion is an extremely mutable thing
Before I write down one word, I have to have the character in my mind through and through. I must penetrate into the last wrinkle of his soul.
Tranquillity consisteth in a steadiness of the mind; and how can that vessel that is beaten upon by contrary waves and winds, and tottereth to either part, be said to keep a steady course? Resolution is the only mother of security.
I’ve always known that there’s more going on inside me than finds its way into the world, but this is probably true of everyone. Who doesn’t regret that he isn’t more fully understood?
To have a childhood means to live a thousand lives before the one.
I am calling attention just to the main points of these tremendously important matters, which can be understood better by pious meditation than explained by human language.