Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a read more

Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.rn

It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies read more

It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if read more

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

One of the most important lessons that experience teaches is that, on the whole, success depends more upon character than read more

One of the most important lessons that experience teaches is that, on the whole, success depends more upon character than upon either intellect or fortune

Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.

Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.

Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was read more

Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul. Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not what they seem.

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

There is a cropping-time in the races of men, as in the fruits of
the field; and sometimes, if read more

There is a cropping-time in the races of men, as in the fruits of
the field; and sometimes, if the stock be good, there springs up
for a time a succession of splendid men; and then comes a period
of barrenness.