Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.
The ancestor of every action is a thought… Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.
There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage.
Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit that, unsuspected, ripens with the flower of the pleasure that concealed it.
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.