Emotions and Feelings

Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.

There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.

The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

A strong and well-constituted man digests his experiences (deeds and misdeeds) just as he digests his meats, even when he has some tough morsels to swallow.

A show of envy is an insult to oneself.

A show of envy is an insult to oneself.

We often pride ourselves on even the most criminal passions, but envy is a timid and shame-faced passion we never dare acknowledge.

An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.

The envious die not once, but as often as the envied win applause.

Envy is a littleness of soul, which cannot see beyond a certain point, and if it does not occupy the whole space, feels itself excluded.

Few men have the strength of character to rejoice in a friend’s success without a touch of envy.

Enthusiasm is a volcano on whose top never grows the grass of hesitation.

Enthusiasm is a volcano on whose top never grows the grass of hesitation.

Enthusiasm is the great hill-climber.

Enthusiasm is the great hill-climber.

Every great and commanding movement in the annals of the world is the triumph of some enthusiasm.

In the drowsy dark caves of the mind dreams build their nest with fragments dropped from day’s caravan.

Dreams are the true interpreters of our inclinations; but there is art required to sort and understand them.

In bed my real love has always been the sleep that rescued me by allowing me to dream.

The dream is the small hidden door in the deepest and most intimate sanctum of the soul, which opens to that primeval cosmic night that was soul long before there was conscious ego.

Dreams wherein we often see ourselves in masquerade.

Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.

Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.

You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.