Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing, it goes about and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.
One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.
A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.
Every blunder behind us is giving a cheer for us, and only for those who were willing to fail are the dangers and splendors of life.
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Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.