quotes

"One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning."

"The mind can weave itself warmly in the cocoon of its own thoughts, and dwell a hermit anywhere."

"There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat."

Mind may be a mirror
reflecting actual reality, pretty or ugly, warm or chilly.
Mind may be a mirage
of the desired or gulped, the coded or assumed.

"A good conscience is a continual Christmas."
- Benjamin Franklin

"Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience."
- Oliver Wendell Holmes

"How many are the things I can do without!"
- Socrates

"No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world."
- Aristotle

I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.

The humorous story is American, the comic story is English, the witty story is French. The humorous story depends for its effect upon the manner of the telling; the comic story and the witty story upon the matter.

"A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth."
- George Bernard Shaw

"Cleverness is not wisdom."
- Euripides

"Nothing is more powerful than habit."
- Ovid