What life means to us is determined, not so much by what life brings to us as by the attitude we bring to life; not so much by what happens to us as by our reaction to what happens.
Lewis L Dunnington
Brevity is the soul of wit.
William Shakespeare
No slave to his passions, he nonetheless reserved some passion for his slave.
Thomas Jefferson
In 1840 I was called from my farm to undertake the administration of public affairs and I foresaw that I was called to a bed of thorns.
John Tyler
Who dares To say that he alone has found the truth?
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Tell him I lingered alone on the shore,
Where we parted, in sorrow, to meet nevermore;
The night-wind blew cold on my desolate heart
But colder those wild words of doom,—“Ye must part.”
Sarah Helen Whitman
As an egg, when broken, never
Can be mended, but must ever
Be the same crushed egg for ever—
So shall this dark heart of mine!
Thomas Holley Chivers
Not failure, but low aim, is crime.
James Russell Lowell
Life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed by the desire of changing his bed. One would prefer to suffer near the fire, and another is certain he would get well if he were by the window.
Charles Baudelaire
It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Whatever one man is capable of conceiving, other men will be able to achieve.