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If I have set my admiration on the poor body, I have given myself up to be a slave; if on my poor possessions, I also make myself a slave.

A man must shape himself to a new mark directly the old one goes to ground.

The movement of the floes was beyond all human control, and there was nothing to be gained by allowing one's mind to struggle with the problems of the future, though it was hard to avoid anxiety at times.

To state the problem is to recall the truth that no single principle can answer all of life's complexities.

At times I would rise up, a flash of energetic freedom would dart through my soul, accompanied with a faint beam of hope, that flickered for a moment, and then vanished.

A man's troubles are always half disposed of, when he finds endurance his only remedy.

I had the grief of neglected chances of escape to brood over

Adventures are to those to whom they are most unexpected

A man cannot deserve adventures; he cannot earn dragons and hippogriffs.

If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.

There are times when the future seems thick as a fog; you sit and wait, hoping the mists will lift and reveal the right path.

Joy deserted my heart, and for a long, long time I lived in doubt, anxiety and fear.

Each halt in his progress has been but a pause before a mighty leap forward.

To love, to dream, to feel, to learn, to understand--all these are possible to me if only I may be relieved from willing.

To reform one's maxims is nothing: it is but to change the title of the book. To learn new habits is everything, for it is to reach the substance of life.

Man is only what he becomes--profound truth; but he becomes only what he is, truth still more profound.

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation

Do not then vainly imagine that you can obtain the heavenly possessions without making an effort.

Idleness and a strong will cannot go together, and procrastination is a total barrier to the acquisition of purposeful action.

Young people themselves often resent this attitude on the part of their elders; they feel set aside and belittled as if they were denied the common human experiences.

These young people have had advantages of college, of European travel, and of economic study, but they are sustaining this shock of inaction.

Huxley declares that the sense of uselessness is the severest shock which the human system can sustain, and that if persistently sustained, it results in atrophy of function.

She is besotted with innocent little ambitions, and does not understand this apparent waste of herself, this elaborate preparation, if no work is provided for her.

If ever any system of privilege and enforced subjection had its yoke tightly riveted on the necks of those who are kept down by it, this has.

Her power often gives her what she has no right to, but does not enable her to assert her own rights.