There must be quite a few things that a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them.
Pride, if not the origin, is the medium of all wickedness-the atmosphere without which it would instantly die away.
Rare almost as great poets, rarer, perhaps, than veritable saints and martyrs; are consummate men of business. A man, to be excellent in this way, requires a great knowledge of character, with that exquisite tact which feels unerringly the right moment when to act. A discreet rapidity must pervade all the movements of his thought and action. He must be singularly free from vanity, and is generally found to be an enthusiast who has the art to conceal his enthusiasm.
Wisdom is seldom gained without suffering.
Most terrors are but spectral illusions. Only have the courage of the man who could walk up to his spectre seated in the chair before him, and sit down upon it; the horrid thing will not partake the chair with you.
It has always appeared to me, that there is so much to be done in this world, that all self-inflicted suffering which cannot be turned to good account for others, is a loss - a loss, if you may so express it, to the spiritual world.
It is a weak thing to tell half your story, and then ask your friend's advice-a still weaker thing to take it.
The best rescues of all leave a family in a better place.
[Barack Obama] says that he thinks America felt better, more confident, because Washington was not simply in a gridlock, in stasis, where nothing was being done. And he talks about that as a positive.
The test of Ahimsa is absence of jealousy.
The art of being officially old seems to lie in cooperative submission.