Embrace the unpredictable and unexpected. It is the path to the infinitely creative in you.
The happier time, the quicker it passes
Perhaps you will ask whether I can raise these three millions without difficulty. Well, nearly all my capital is invested in land, but I have some money out at interest and I can borrow without any trouble.
He [Pliny the Elder] used to say that 'no book [etc] was so bad but some good might be got out of it'.
The living voice is that which sways the soul.
The highest of characters is his who is as ready to pardon the moral errors of mankind as if he were every day guilty of them himself; and as cautious of committing a fault as if he never forgave one.
They enhance the value of their favors by the words with which they are accompanied.
Money doesn't buy happiness. It buys great hookers - but not happiness.
You have not succeeded in your experiments, that is all there is to it.
He who seeks possessions for himself will never find them-until he begins to give of the abundance of possessions which he already has.
Each one of us pray, day and night, for the downtrodden millions in India, who are held fast by poverty, priest craft, and tyranny - pray day and night for them. I am no meta physician, no philosopher, nay, no saint. But I am poor, I love the poor. . . . Let these people be your God - think of them, work for them, pray for them incessantly - the Lord will show you the way.