No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities..
~ Christian Nestell Bovee
A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness, it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it
There is probably no hell for authors in the next world--they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this one.
Doubt whom you will but never yourself.
Our first and last love is self-love.
Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them.
Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.
We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.
There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.
Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.
