Movement is the universal language of personal freedom.
Better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing than a long life spent in a miserable way.
If we are unduly absorbed in improving our lives we may forget altogether to live them.
. . . preliminary accounting, banking and surveying (known as arithmetic, algebra and geometry).
To be free from convention is not to spurn it but not to be deceived by it.
Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.
There is nothing at all that can be talked about adequately, and the whole art of poetry is to say what can't be said.
God should be the object of all our desires, the end of all our actions, the principle of all our affections, and the governing power of our whole souls.
I have seen the hippopotamus, both asleep and awake; and I can assure you that, awake or asleep, he is the ugliest of the works of God.
If you don’t do something differently, you’ll ultimately be where you are now, only later.
It is necessary to do a very thorough examination of your life and to discover whether the people in your life, no matter how much you love them, are using you or abusing you.