Seeing something once is better than hearing about it a hundred times. Doing something once is better than seeing it a hundred times.
The only thing one can do one day one did not do the day before is to die.
I endeavor to be wise when I cannot be merry, easy when I cannot be glad, content with what cannot be mended, and patient when there be no redress.
I never invite idiots to my house.
I endeavor to drink deep of philosophy, and to be wise when I cannot be merry, easy when I cannot be glad, content with what cannot be mended, and patient where there is no redress. The mighty can do no more, and the wise seldom do as much. . . . I am resolved to make the best of all circumstances around me, that this short life may not be half lost in pains. . . Between the periods of birth and burial, I would fain insert a little happiness, a little pleasure, a little peace: to-day is ours, yesterday is past, and to-morrow may never come.
it is more to my personal happiness and advantage to indulge the love and admiration of excellence, than to cherish a secret envy of it.
I often think that those people are the happiest who know nothing at all of the world, and sitting in the little empire of the fireside, where there is no contention or cabal, think we are in a golden age of existance.
Fear not. For fear itself is fed by fear, and all fears pass. Did no one tell you so? Come take my hand, my friend, and we will peer into this fear's abyss. And jump! And know.
He that discovers himself, till he hath made himself master of his desires, lays himself open to his own ruin, and makes himself prisoner to his own tongue.
What I remember about being painted was a very severe atmosphere. I remember her intensity and sharp glance.
Is not virtue a negation of becoming?