In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.
The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.
By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.