It is a common saying, and in everybody's mouth, that life is but a sojourn.
What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.
You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.
Money is human happiness in the abstract he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.
For I can raise no money by vile means.
It is legal because I wish it.
It is normal to give away a little of one's life in order not to lose it all.
The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.
A good conscience is a continual Christmas.
Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.
If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
The ideal and the beautiful are identical the ideal corresponds to the idea, and beauty to form hence idea and substance are cognate.
The doer alone learneth.
Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so I shall choose my death when I am about to depart from life.
Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.
Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness.
A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.
For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.
Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.
Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.
Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.
We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's happiness, not by each other's misery.
God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood!
Speak low, if you speak love.
When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.
So, influenced by these advisors and this hope, I have at length allowed my friends to publish the work, as they had long besought me to do.
The chief enemy of creativity is 'good' sense.
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