Decision

We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.

Enlightenment means taking full responsibility for your life.

The logic of words should yield to the logic of realities

You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.

Let twenty pass, and stone the twenty-first, loving not, hating not, just choosing so

He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave

Solitude would be ideal if you could pick the people to avoid

A weak man has doubts before a decision; a strong man has them afterwards

Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven

What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but don't we just as often draw the wrong ones?

The worst thing you can possibly do is worrying and thinking about what you could have done

To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday

A man always has two reasons for doing anything, a good reason and the real reason.

Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.

In the dim background of mind we know what we ought to be doing but somehow we cannot start.

Resolve and thou art free

When in doubt, don’t

Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young

Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, the last of life, for which the first was made

Life without liberty is like a body without spirit