Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.
I like to play blackjack. I'm not addicted to gambling, I'm addicted to sitting in a semi-circle.
What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty.
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.
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.