Man can only become what he is able to consciously imagine, or to "image forth."
I have smelt all the aromas there are in the fragrant kitchen they call Earth; and what we can enjoy in this life, I surely have enjoyed just like a lord!
In much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.
For weeks I've been telling him not to buy anything for my birthday, and he still forgot to bring me something.
Men at some time are masters of their fates.
We must endure what fortune sends.
I am a stranger to half measures.
What matters most is that we learn from living.
Conscience: That which makes a boy tell his mother before his sister does.
They who await no gifts from chance have conquered fate.
Think you, if Laura had been Petrarch's wife, He would have written sonnets all his life?
No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time. It is just that others are behind the time.
Grant that we may not so much seek to be understood as to understand.
The work will teach you how to do it.
When sorrows come, they come not as single spies, But in battalions!
The difficulties and struggles of today are but the price we must pay for the accomplishments and victories of tomorrow.
It is a perplexing and unpleasant truth that when men already have 'something worth fighting for', they do not feel like fighting.
Everyday ask yourself the question, "Do I want to experience Peace of Mind or do I want to experience Conflict ?"
One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.
There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best.