We are only midway through the central verse of our youth when we see ourselves begin to blacken. . . . We had been seduced into thinking that we were immortal and suddenly the affair is over.
Art is far feebler than necessity.
He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.
I would rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evils.
Oh, it is easy for the one who stands outside the prison-wall of pain to exhort and teach the one who suffers.
The anvil of justice is planted firm, and fate who makes the sword does the forging in advance.
Self-will in the man who does not reckon wisely is by itself the weakest of all things.
A fool is a person who guesses and gets it wrong, a clever man is one who guesses, regardless of time period, and gets it right.
Drinking is in reality an occupation which employs a considerable portion of the time of many people; and to conduct it in the most rational and agreeable manner is one of the great arts of living.
Music has the power to make me feel good like nothing else does. It gives me some peace for a while. Takes me back to who I really am.
Especially if you're over 40, shortening the term of your loan to pay it off sooner could make you mortgage-free in retirement.