Chance

There would be no great men if there were no little ones

He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star.

Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied

For life, with all its yields of joy and woe, and hope and fear, believe the aged friend, is just a chance o' the prize of learning love

Out of difficulties grow miracles

One must laugh before one is happy, or one may die without ever laughing at all

The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled

Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall

An artist will betray himself by some sort of sincerity

If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once a week.

Hiding places there are innumerable, escape is only one, but possibilities of escape, again, are as many as hiding places.

Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.

I compare human life to a large mansion of many apartments, two of which I can only describe, the doors of the rest being as yet shut upon me

Remember that lost time does not return.

Solitude would be ideal if you could pick the people to avoid

I cannot stop thinking that I died before I was born and that at my death I will return to the same state

The thoughts that come often unsought, and, as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we have

Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions

How beautiful is youth! how bright it gleams with its illusions, aspirations, dreams! Book of beginnings, story without end, each maid a heroine, and each man a friend!