I am always easy of belief when the creed pleases me.

It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility; they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Look twice before you leap.

Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still retains vividly those of earlier years.

You had no right to be born; for you make no use of life. Instead of living for, in, and with yourself, as a reasonable being ought, you seek only to fasten your feebleness on some other person's strength.

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.

Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.

You know full well as I do the value of sisters' affections: There is nothing like it in this world.

The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious, but still a truthful interpreter - in the eye.

The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed.

A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.

Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.

If all the world hated you, and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved you, and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends.

I feel monotony and death to be almost the same.

I don't call you handsome, sir, though I love you most dearly: far too dearly to flatter you. Don't flatter me.

If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.

Better to be without logic than without feeling.

I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.

Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.