Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.

Quote by Robert Louis Stevenson

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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By...

There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By...

When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do...

When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do...

The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably...

Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably...

It's a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.

It's a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.

You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a...

You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a...

To forget oneself is to be happy.

To forget oneself is to be happy.

There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in...

There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in...

There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.

There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.

I find it useful to remember, everyone lives by selling something.

I find it useful to remember, everyone lives by selling something.

To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.

To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.

Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on...

Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on...

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand...

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand...

Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all...

The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all...

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.

I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can...

I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can...

The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.

The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.

Evil is always possible. Goodness is a difficulty.

Evil is always possible. Goodness is a difficulty.

He who does not punish evil commands it to be done.

He who does not punish evil commands it to be done.