“Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.”

“Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.”

“Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.”

The surest way to remain poor is to be honest.

Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.

As for me, to love you alone, to make you happy, to do nothing which would contradict your wishes, this is my destiny and the meaning of my life

Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them

We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.

“The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.”

“What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.”

“Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.”

“Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.”

I call an animal, a species, an individual depraved when it loses its instincts, when it chooses, when it prefers what is harmful to it.

Pity on the whole thwarts the law of evolution, which is the law of selection.

The weak and ill-constituted shall perish: first principle of our philanthropy. And one shall help them to do so.

Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell. (Edna St. Vincent Millay)

Dreams permit each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives. ( William Dement)

Heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight but, while their companions slept, they were toiling upward in the night. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)

A true man does not need to romance a different girl every night, a true man romances the same girl for the rest of her life. ( Ana Alas)

We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year’s Day. (Edith Lovejoy Pierce)

An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves. (Bill Vaughan)

New Year’s Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time. (James Agate)

Youth is when you’re allowed to stay up late on New Year’s Eve. Middle age is when you’re forced to. (Bill Vaughan)

The Old Year has gone. Let the dead past bury its own dead. The New Year has taken possession of the clock of time. All hail the duties and possibilities of the coming twelve months! (Edward Payson Powell)

It wouldn’t be New Year’s if I didn’t have regrets. (William Thomas)