One must never look for happiness: one meets it by the way.
The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head.
The best place to find a helping hand is at the end of your own arm.
Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
He that resolves to deal with none but honest men, must leave off dealing.
There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first . . . when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.
An actor is a sculptor who carves in snow.
There is no business in the world so troublesome as the pursuit of fame: life is over before you have hardly begun your work.
Humour is emotional chaos remembered in tranquillity.
The painting rises from the brushstrokes as a poem rises from the words. The meaning comes later.
A blind man in a dark room - looking for a black hat which isn't there.
Every noble work is at first impossible.
Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them.
The job of a citizen is to keep his mouth open.
You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.
There's a time for all things.
Nature has given to men one tongue, but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak.
First say to yourself what you would be, and then do what you have to do.
I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.
For what human ill does not dawn seem to be an alleviation?