"If one door closes, another one opens"

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

Source: Artemis to Actaeon, Vesalius in Zante (1909)

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it

Source: Walden (1854)

Optimist: A proponent of the doctrine that black is white

Source: The Devil's Dictionary (1911)

A little rebellion now and then is a good thing

Source: Letter to James Madison (Jan. 30, 1787)

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact

Source: The Will to Believe (1897)

To contract new debts is not the way to pay old ones

Source: Letter to James Welch (Apr. 7, 1799)

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