Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.
When the mind is thinking, it is talking to itself.
No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.
I remember when I got married. I remember where I got married. But for the life of me, I can't remember why I got married.
So prodigal was I of youth, Forgetting I was young; I worshipped dead men for their strength, Forgetting I was strong.
All happiness is in the mind.
St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night in a second-class hotel.
If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?
O wad some power the giftie gie us to see some people before they see us.
Even the wisest men make fools of themselves about women, and even the most foolish women are wise about men.
Free man is by necessity insecure; thinking man by necessity uncertain.
I was born to be a remarkable woman; it matters little in what way or how. ... I shall be famous or I will die.
Economy, prudence, and a simple life are the sure masters of need, and will often accomplish that which their opposites, with a fortune at hand, will fail to do.
Do not say, "It is morning," and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name.
My gratitude for good writing is unbounded; I'm grateful for it the way I'm grateful for the ocean.
Practice yourself in little things, and thence proceed to greater.
The body manifests what the mind harbors.
One does not have to stand again the gale. One yields and becomes part of the wind.
I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.