Question how much freedom your path affords you. Be utterly ruthless about it. It's your freedom that will get you to where you want to go.
Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces there are in him.
If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence. The origin of myths is explained in this way.
Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords.
Life affords no higher pleasure than that of summoning difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.
No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.