Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.
Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others.
He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.
Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.
Nature seems at each man's birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues and vices, and to have determined how good or how wicked that man shall be capable of being.
Those who enjoy their own emotionally bad health and who habitually fill their own minds with the rank poisons of suspicion, jealousy and hatred, as a rule take umbrage at those who refuse to do likewise, and they find a perverted relief in trying to denigrate them.
One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.
For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life.
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
When good Americans die they go to Paris.
Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which nature herself is animated.
Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.
The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.
So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.
Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?
A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.
Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.
We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.
Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.
Every true genius is bound to be naive.
There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.
Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.
Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.
Divorce is probably of nearly the same date as marriage. I believe, however, that marriage is some weeks the more ancient.
Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.
Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors.
In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.
You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
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