You learn a lot, writing fiction.
The wisest man could ask no more of fate Than to be simple, modest, manly, true, Safe from the many, honored by the few; Nothing to court in Church, or World, or State, But inwardly in secret to be great.
The only conclusive evidence of a man's sincerity is that he gives himself for a principle. Words, money, all things else, are comparatively easy to give away; but when a man makes a gift of his daily life and practice, it is plain that the truth, whatever it may be, has taken possession of him.
And what they dare to dream of, date to do.
Human nature has a much greater genius for sameness than for originality.
What men call luck Is the prerogative of valiant souls, The fealty life pays its rightful kings.
For only by unlearning Wisdom comes.
God has judged me all my life. But that is God's privilege, my lady. Not yours.
When the last point is done, we are humans. Give your opponent a hug and say, ‘great fight,’ and that’s all.
The best advice I've ever heard about anything is this: Don't exaggerate! When you work hard, when you sleep long, when you love much, when you are very sad, always remember this advice: Don't exaggerate!
Each new ontological theory, propounded in lieu of previous ones shown to be untenable, has been followed by a new criticism leading to a new scepticism. All possible conceptions have been one by one tried and found wanting; and so the entire field of speculation has been gradually exhausted without positive result: the only result reached being the negative one above stated, that the reality existing behind all appearances is, and must ever be, unknown.