Habits are like submarines; they run silent and deep.
A scheme of which every part promises delight, can never be successful; and general disappointment is only warded off by the defence of some little peculiar vexation.
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.
I am curious to see what books will emerge from all this writing online that's the result of those who grew up pouring their feelings out on Livejournal or Tumblr - excessive, sometimes automatic, sometimes enraged, emotional, while also quite intellectual - or if formal books will emerge at all, if that's not the point of these unmediated raw spaces. I'm excited by the possibility.
Success comes to those who become success conscious. Failure comes to those who indifferently allow themselves to become failure conscious.
What drives me is exploration with a purpose, more the classic Royal Geographical Society genre.
But with what incessant and grievous ills is old age surrounded!