Raising children is an uncertain thing success is reached only after a life of battle and worry.
It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.
I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose.
They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.
It is from a weakness and smallness of mind that men are opinionated and we are very loath to believe what we are not able to comprehend.
The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.
The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ it contains both of them in a state of high development, and epitomizes both.
Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need the remainder is needed by others.
God gave us the gift of life it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.
All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.
Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.
Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.
The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work.
War is sweet to those who have not experienced it.
Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds.
Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?
What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music.
Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.
War is like love it always finds a way.
Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either lead into freedom or constitute a proof for its existence.
Love and friendship exclude each other.
We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.
There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.
History does nothing it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.
Off with you! You're a happy fellow, for you'll give happiness and joy to many other people. There is nothing better or greater than that!
One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.
Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.
If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk.
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