It's not enough that I should succeed -- others should fail.

It's not enough that I should succeed -- others should fail.

When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.

No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.

I conceive that pleasures are to be avoided if greater pains be the
consequence, and pains to be coveted that read more

I conceive that pleasures are to be avoided if greater pains be the
consequence, and pains to be coveted that will terminate in greater
pleasures.

What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise.

What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise.

You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.

You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.

Marriage should be a duet-when one sings, the other claps.

Marriage should be a duet-when one sings, the other claps.

Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul.

Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul.

I am neither an optimist nor pessimist, but a possibilist.

I am neither an optimist nor pessimist, but a possibilist.