Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment or it will run to weeds.

A great idea is usually original to more than one discoverer. Great ideas come when the world needs them. Great ideas surround the world's ignorance and press for admission.

It seems to me that life is always undoing for us something that we have just laboriously done.

Out of my discomforts, which were small enough, grew one thing for which I have all my life been grateful, the formation of fixed habits of work.

The great law of denial belongs to the powerful forces of life, whether the case be one of coolish baked beans, or an unrequited affection.

A perfect marriage is like a pure heart ... those who have it are fit to see God.

Surely it is one of the simplest laws of taste in dress, that it shall not attract undue attention from the wearer to the worn.

A literary woman's best critic is her husband.

Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.

What an immense power over life is the power of possessing distinct aims.

What an immense power over the life is the power of possessing distinct aims. The voice, the dress, the look, the very motion of a person, define and alter when he or she begins to live for a reason.

The sun is up, the sky is blueIt's beautiful, and so are you

Crime is the price society pays for abandoning character.

Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.

A warrior knows that he is only a man. His only regret is that his life is so short that he can't grab onto all the things he would like to. But for him, this is not an issue; it's only a pity.

You're much too hung up on all of your ideas and your desires. You still have not penetrated the essence of yoga.

All passions that suffer themselves to be relished and digested are but moderate.

I think when a man sees a woman who knows what she wants it can be scary, but it can also be tempting.

Don't tell me that you have exhausted Life. When a man says that, one knows that life has exhausted him.

Farewell, my friend," Drizzt whispered, trying futilely to keep his voice from breaking. :This journey you make alone.

I revere the fullness of His Scripture, in which He manifests to me both the Creator and creation. In the gospel moreover, I discover a Minister and Witness of the Creator, even His Word.