They who go Feel not the pain of parting; it is they Who stay behind that suffer.
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night's repose.
The nearer the dawn the darker the night.
Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.
In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.
It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.
All things must change to something new, to something strange.
There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.
Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies. By dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed To have a passer-by kill the snake for the beads.
Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him.
The dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless; love is eternal.
Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.
The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after.
Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor's nose.
If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
