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I knew when I met you an adventure was going to happen.
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When we look at a child, we see that sense of fullness, of intrinsic aliveness, of joy in being, is not the result of something else. There is value in just being oneself, it is not because of something one does or doesn't do. It is there in the beginning, when we are children, but slowly it gets lost.
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Very young children eat their books, literally devouring their contents. This is one reason for the scarcity of first editions of Alice in Wonderland and other favorites of the nursery.
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Behave in life as at a dinner party. Is anything brought around to you? Put out your hand and take your share with moderation. Does it pass by you? Do not stop it. Is it not yet come? Do not stretch your desire towards it, but wait till it reaches you. Do this with regard to children, to a spouse, to public post, to riches, and you will eventually be a worthy guest at the feast of life.
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Now if you should hear any one say that Lincoln don't [sic] want to go to Congress, I wish you as a personal friend of mine, wouldtell him that you have reason to believe he is mistaken.
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No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.
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Affairs are easier of entrance than of exit; and it is but common prudence to see our way out before we venture in.
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We ought to be more focused on enemies without than preoccupied with finding them within.
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Every person has a revolution beating within his or her chest
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Revolutions are something you see only in retrospect.
