Risky is not the same as crazy. Failing is not the same as being worthless.

I think a person who wants too much is asking to be disappointed.... I'd like to be good at just one thing.

If only they would all just leave me alone with my books and my letters, I would be content to let life, and the world pass me by

The key to happiness is a regular dose of unhappiness.

A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still.

God is an unutterable sigh planted in the depths of the soul.

We should never judge a day by its weather.

This is the chief thing: be not perturbed, for all things are according to the nature of the universal.

Because you can be lazy if you don't know the truth.

A gentleman never talks about his tailor.

Reproof should not exhaust its power upon petty failings.

Think as I think," said a man, "or you are abominably wicked; you are a toad." And after I thought of it, I said, "I will, then, be a toad.