"A well-trained mind has less difficulty in..." - Quote by Francois De La Rochefoucauld

“Jealousy is always born with love, but does not die with it. In jealousy there is more of self-love than of love to another.”

“There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.”

“Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.”

“It is my mind, with its store of images, that gives the world color and sound; and that supremely real and rational certainty which I can "experience" is, in its most simple form, an exceedingly complicated structure of mental images. Thus there is, in a certain sense, nothing that is directly experienced except the mind itself. Everything is mediated through the mind, translated, filtered, allegorized, twisted, even falsified by it. We are . . . enveloped in a cloud of changing and endlessly shifting images.”

“Scattered wits take a long time in picking up.”

“To let a sad thought or a bad one get into your mind is as dangerous as letting a scarlet fever germ get into your body. If you let it stay there after it has got in, you may never get over it as long as you live.”

“I know that one of the great arts that the writer develops is the art of saying, 'No. No, I'm finished. Bye.' And leaving it alone. I will not write it into the ground. I will not write the life out of it. I won't do that.”

“The greatest step toward success is self confidence. The greatest builder of self confidence is self esteem, and self esteem comes from doing the daily things you know you should do. Your self esteem will start to soar when you make some critical decisions - decisions to walk a new road, to start a new direction, to start a new discipline.”

“Without the aid of trained emotions the intellect is powerless against the animal organism.”