It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.
It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.
I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.
Personality is everything in art and poetry.
Good artists copy, great artists steal.
The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.
Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.
But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless there is soul, but only that of which time is an attribute, i.e. if change can exist without soul.
We should take care not to make the intellect our god it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.
I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.
Well done is better than well said.
Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.
There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.
Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.
Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.
Whether you come from heaven or hell, what does it matter, O Beauty!
Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom.
Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.
If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.
No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.
What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god.
You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.
You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.
Love is a serious mental disease.
The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.
The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
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