Growth

but it’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.

She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it),

I dearly love a laugh.

Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.

Till this moment, I never knew myself.

You must learn some of my philosophy.

Trust thyself:

the only way to have a friend is to be one.

Insist on yourself; never imitate.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.

Things do not change; we change.

He who overcomes others is strong; he who overcomes himself is mighty.

Man at his birth is supple and weak; at his death, firm and strong.

If you would improve, be content to be thought foolish and dull with regard to externals.

Remember, that to change thy mind upon occasion, and to follow him that is able to rectify thee, is equally ingenuous, as to find out at the first, what is right and just, without help.

Think thyself fit and worthy to speak, or to do anything that is according to nature,

The artist is the creator of beautiful things.

An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them.

It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name.

The frog forgets its tadpole days.

A dragon rises from a small stream.

Even a sheet of paper is easier to lift together.