self-awareness Quotes

Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.

Men have become the tools of their tools.

I have a great deal of company in the house, especially in the morning when nobody calls.

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.

There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.

We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.