The coward threatens when he is safe.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
People have a peculiar pleasure in making converts, that is, in causing others to enjoy what they enjoy, thus finding their own likeness represented and reflected back to them.
Where there is much light, the shadow is deep.
Nine requisites for contented living: Health enough to make work a pleasure. Wealth enough to support your needs. Strength to battle with difficulties and overcome them. Grace enough to confess your sins and forsake them. Patience enough to toil until some good is accomplished. Charity enough to see some good in your neighbor. Love enough […]
You must either conquer and rule or serve and lose, suffer or triumph, be the anvil or the hammer.
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.
I will not be as those who spend the day in complaining of headache, and the night in drinking the wine that gives it.
Whatever you can do, or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation) there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too.
He alone is great and happy who requires neither to command nor to obey in order to secure his being of some importance in this world.
