It is impossible for us to break the law. We can only break ourselves against the law.
In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.
How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.
Put down your stones. Why are you breaking the window when God has left the door wide open? If you are afraid, lover, follow me. I will guide the way.
Instead of being regarded as intelligent or knowledgeable, many a woman would rather be regarded as beautiful or good in the kitchen; many a man, as handsome or good in bed.
It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel.
Every corner and room of a house will carry memories, make these the most pleasurable times you shared with your family.
A photograph doesn't gain weight or lose weight, or change from being happy to being sad. It's frozen. You can use it, then recycle it.
Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.
If we could get your subconscious mind to agree with your conscious mind about being happy, that's when your positive thoughts work.
At his best, man is the noblest of all animals separated from law and justice he is the worst.