Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of high living.
Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
An idea is salvation by imagination.
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
I was sick of cars driving right past me.
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.