I have seen how the foundations of the world are laid, and I have not the least doubt that it will stand a good while.
Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.
There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.
The most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power.
These are not dark days: these are great days - the greatest days our country has ever lived.
I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death.
Alas! how little does the memory of these human inhabitants enhance the beauty of the landscape!
I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.
The flesh endures the storms of the present alone the mind, those of the past and future as well as the present. Gluttony is a lust of the mind.
The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.
Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.
Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing.
Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.
Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.
Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.
Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.
For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind or both in combination, when he is a slave to thirteen thousand a year?
Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.
To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.
Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.
Do what you love. Know your own bone gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.
A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live.
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time.
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