Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.
The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.
Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.
The man who goes alone can start today but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.
As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.
Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.
In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.
If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.
Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.
A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.
Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours.
It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.
Conversion is not my intention. Changing religion is not easy. You may develop some kind of confusion or difficulties.
Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.
Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only pain we obey.
All oppression creates a state of war.
We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.
The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected.
The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl: it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling.
In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society.
True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me.
Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends.
No crime is so great as daring to excel.
May we so love as never to have occasion to repent of our love!
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