Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us.
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.
If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.
Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.