The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.
Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind.
The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.
The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man... It is more powerful than external circumstances.
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I only wish that wisdom were the kind of thing that flowed... from the vessel that was full to the one that was empty.
The beginning of wisdom, as they say. When you're seventeen you know everything. When you're twenty-seven, if you still know everything, you're still seventeen.