Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement. Discouragement has a germ of its own, as different from trouble as arthritis is different from a stiff joint.
The conviction of the inevitability of failure and still the determination to 'succeed'-and, more than these, the contradiction between the dead hand of the past and the high intentions of the future.
There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.
Eyes are full of kindness as each feels the full effect of novelty after a short separation. They are drawing a relaxation from each other's presence, a new serenity.
Reserving judgements is a matter of infinite hope.
To be afraid, a person has either to be very great and strong-- or else a coward.
Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.
The abnormal mind is quick to detect and attach itself to this quality when it appears in a normal person.
Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known.
Intelligence is little more than a short foot-rule by which we measure the infinite achievements of circumstances.
Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck.
If truth is the end of life happiness is a mode of it, to be cherished in its brief and tremulous moment.
After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.
Laughter is easier, minute by minute, spilled with prodigality, tipped out at a cheerful word.
No such thing as a man willing to be honest - that would be like a blind man willing to see.
Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.
Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure.
There’s a loneliness that only exists in one’s mind. The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is blink.
An artist is someone who can hold two opposing viewpoints and still remain fully functional.
Vitality shows not only in the ability to persist, but in the ability to start over.
