The emotional qualities are antagonistic to clear reasoning.

The chief proof of man's real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.

No: I am not tired. I have a curious constitution. I never remember feeling tired by work, though idleness exhausts me completely." ~ Sherlock Holmes

‎A change of work is the best rest.

How small we feel with our petty ambitions and strivings in the presence of the great elemental forces of Nature!

She was weak and helpless, shaken in mind and nerve. It was to take her at a disadvantage to obtrude love upon her at such a time.

Why should you, for a mere passing pleasure, risk the loss of those great powers with which you have been endowed?

If books are your good friends, then a conscious life will be your best comrade all your life!

It is not possible to design always the same. How to be different in each different place - that is the most important work and duty of the architect to find out.

Best of an island is once you get there - you can't go any farther...you've come to the end of things.

If there's one thing on this planet you don't look like it's a bunch of good luck walkin around.

God does sometimes change our trying circumstances. But more often, He doesn't - because He wants to change us.

Understand that you don't know it all. You don't know anything yet. What you've been taught is great, but always go with common sense. And don't marry your first love.

Like anything, you've gotta find the humanity in the characters.

I am happy to receive any items of jewelry.

I was going through the hardest thing, also the greatest thing, for any human being to do; to accept that which is already within you, and around you.

I don't believe in colleges and universities.