I actually thrive on all the challenges, and I don't feel like ADD has impaired my ability.
In every power, of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided among the sexes.
Run mad as often as you choose, but do not faint!
Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.
Self-knowledge is the first step to maturity.
Her eye fell everywhere on lawns and plantations of the freshest green; and the trees, though not fully clothed, were in that delightful state when farther beauty is known to be at hand, and when, while much is actually given to the sight, more yet remains for the imagination.
You must be the best judge of your own happiness.
As for meat, let me say it upfront:Humans haven’t fully adapted to eating meat.
I love thinking about American history, thinking about LA history. I love brooding on crime.
Manners are the happy ways of doing things.
I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think. Whereas if the child is left to himself, he will think more and better , if less "showily. " Let him come and go freely, let him touch real things and combine his impressions for himself. . . Teaching fills the mind with artificial associations that must be got rid of before the child can develop independent ideas out of actual experiences.