We can't change every little thing that happens to us in life, but we can change the way that we experience it.
Occupation is the armor of the soul.
There are no eyes so sharp as the eyes of hatred.
The instinctive and universal taste of mankind selects flowers for the expression of its finest sympathies, their beauty and their fleetingness serving to make them the most fitting symbols of those delicate sentiments for which language itself seems almost too gross a medium.
Ambition is not a weakness unless it be disproportioned to the capacity. To have more ambition than ability is to be at once weak and unhappy.
Strategy is the most important department of the art of war, and strategical skill is the highest and rarest function of military genius.
Misfortunes have their dignity and their redeeming power.
Surprise your doubts with action.
If everyone has to think outside the box, maybe it is the box that needs fixing.
The meaning of life can be revealed but never explained.
Thou art as tyrannous, so as thou art, As those whose beauties proudly make them cruel; For well thou know'st to my dear doting heart Thou art the fairest and most precious jewel.