None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.
It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man.
Live your life, do your work, then take your hat.
There is no such thing as a good tax.
There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.
Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
Fear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion.
Of two pleasures, if there be one which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference, irrespective of any feeling of moral obligation to prefer it, that is the more desirable pleasure.
God reigns when we take a liberal view, when a liberal view is presented to us.
Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend - or a meaningful day.
I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.
The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour.
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
I like mathematics because it is not human and has nothing particular to do with this planet or with the whole accidental universe - because, like Spinoza's God, it won't love us in return.
Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.
The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry.
They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.
The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness.
It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom, whole worlds apart, who has no knowledge of us and by whom it is impossible to make ourselves understood: our body.
Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.
Many a man will have the courage to die gallantly, but will not have the courage to say, or even to think, that the cause for which he is asked to die is an unworthy one.
Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power.
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