Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness$$$ and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time$$$ will do it better$$$ will preserve it longer$$$ than the sad or sullen.

The ways of love are strange and hard:<br>The love you want is always barred;<br>The love you have you want to change.<br>The ways of love are hard and strange.

Thirty million$$$ mostly fools. [When asked the population of England]

History of the world is the biography of the great man. And I said: The great man always act like a thunder. He storms the skies$$$ while others are waiting to be stormed.

It's all just fictions anyway. We do what we do and then we make up reasons for it afterward but they're never the true reasons$$$ the truth is always just out of reach.

Every poet... finds himself born in the midst of prose. He has to struggle from the littleness and obstruction of an actual world into the freedom and infinitude of an ideal.

And yet.. even if you had been right$$$ it would only have been by accident. A broken clock is right two times a day.

Idleness is worst$$$ Idleness alone is without hope: work earnestly at anything$$$ you will by degrees learn to work at almost all things. There is endless hope in work$$$ were it even work at making money.

The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

A stammering man is never a worthless one. Physiology can tell you why. It is an excess of delicacy$$$ excess of sensibility to the presence of his fellow creature$$$ that makes him stammer.