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To be surrounded by beautiful things has much influence upon the human creature: to make beautiful things has more.

What we do modifies us more than what is done to us.

To give so much time to the improvement of yourself that you have no time to criticise others.

What you imagine, you will think, and what you think, you will become.

Your life will never be a straight path.

It’s also about knowing what you know and what you don’t know. It’s about being open to people and ideas.

You will fail at some point in your life. Accept it. You will lose. You will embarrass yourself. You will suck at something. There is no doubt about it.

You’ll never see a U-haul behind a hearse.

So I ask you today: How many ghosts are going to be around your bed when your time comes?

but to have the spleen, and to dream upon't, is a punishment I would not wish my greatest enemy

Love is a terrible word, and I should blush to death if anything but a letter accused me on't.

If you love me you will; and if you do not, I shall never love myself.

The style shall be simple and familiar; but style is the image of character; and the habits of correct writing may produce, without labour or design, the appearance of art and study.

There are probably as many different dialects for the heart as for the tongue, are there not?

After all is said, if the young people have an earnest purpose in life it is easy to plan a method of living and to carry it out.

Peace or harmony between the sexes and individuals does not necessarily depend on a superficial equalization of human beings; nor does it call for the elimination of individual traits and peculiarities.

Emancipation should make it possible for woman to be human in the truest sense.

The most unpardonable sin in society is independence of thought.

Wretch, you are carrying about a god with you, and you know it not.

It is circumstances (difficulties) which show what men are.

Keep by every means what is your own; do not desire what belongs to others.

If I have set my admiration on the poor body, I have given myself up to be a slave; if on my poor possessions, I also make myself a slave.

Will you not go back, and you will see clearer when you have laid aside fear?

Do not admire your clothes, and then you will not be angry with the thief.

See that you do nothing like a sheep; but if you do, in this case also the man is lost.