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Smile when it hurts most.
Smile when it hurts most.
Sometimes in our confusion, we see not the world as it is, but the world though eyes blurred by the read more
Sometimes in our confusion, we see not the world as it is, but the world though eyes blurred by the mind.
Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost.
Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost.
Never, ever underestimate the power of 'Id Like that.
Never, ever underestimate the power of 'Id Like that.
You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk dancing.
You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk dancing.
Good questions outrank easy answers.
Good questions outrank easy answers.
You are wholly complete and your success in life will be in direct proportion to your ability to accept this read more
You are wholly complete and your success in life will be in direct proportion to your ability to accept this truth about you.
Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active read more
Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.
There is a sort of veteran woman of condition, who, having lived always in the grand monde, and having possibly read more
There is a sort of veteran woman of condition, who, having lived always in the grand monde, and having possibly had some gallantries, together with the experience of five and twenty or thirty years, form a young fellow better than all the rules that can be given him. Wherever you go, make some of those women your friends; which a very little matter will do. Ask their advice, tell them your doubts or difficulties as to your behavior; but take great care not to drop one word of their experience; for experience implies age, and the suspicion of age, no woman, let her be ever so old, ever forgives.