He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
I put all my genius into my life I put only my talent into my works.
The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.
One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
Man's naked form belongs to no particular moment in history it is eternal, and can be looked upon with joy by the people of all ages.
The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.
It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.
Next to God we are nothing. To God we are Everything.
The love of economy is the root of all virtue.
One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.
When one has not had a good father, one must create one.
I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time.
Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.
It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another.
The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.
Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
I love those who do not know how to live for today.
Society bristles with enigmas which look hard to solve. It is a perfect maze of intrigue.
I love all men who think, even those who think otherwise than myself.
All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.
The major advances in speed of communication and ability to interact took place more than a century ago. The shift from sailing ships to telegraph was far more radical than that from telephone to email!
The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.
A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin what else does a man need to be happy?
It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion.
What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.
Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man's happiness really lies in contentment.
Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities Truth isn't.
God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board.
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