It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.
My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.
Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.
My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks. I will not resign myself...
Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor the soul act with cheerfulness.
Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
Nothing is said that has not been said before.