I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice.
One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.
What children take from us, they give?We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.
My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks. I will not resign myself...
Don't mace him!" I shouted over the din. "You'll get us all too.
Maybe the most any of us can expect of ourselves isn't perfection but progress.
The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.