Being is the great explainer.
The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend.
I fear chiefly lest my expression may not be extravagant enough, may not wander far enough beyond the narrow limit of my daily experience, so as to be adequate to the truth of which I have been convinced. Extravagance! it depends on how you are yarded.
We are armed with language adequate to describe each leaf of the filed, but not to describe human character.
Why level downward to our dullest perception always, and praise that as common sense? The commonest sense is the sense of men asleep, which they express by snoring.
Was there ever such an autumn? And yet there was never such a panic and hard times in the commercial world. The merchants and banks are suspending and failing all the country over, but not the sandbanks, solid and warm, and streaked with bloody blackberry vines.You may run upon them as much as you please – even as the crickets do, and find their account in it. They are the stockholders in these banks, and I hear them creaking their content.
The way by which you may get money almost without exception leads downward.
All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
All mankind love a lover.
The volatile truth of our words should continually betray the inadequacy of the residual statement.
The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.
Success must include two things: the development of an individual to his utmost potentiality and a contribution of some kind to one’s world.
The best efforts of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.
Punishment closely follows guilt as its companion.
We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.
Anger makes dull men witty – but it keeps them poor.
It is, indeed, at home that every man must be known by those who would make a just estimate either of his virtue or felicity; for smiles and embroidery are alike occasional, and the mind is often dressed for show in painted honor, and fictitious benevolence.
Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
The education of the will is the object of our existence.
All my best thoughts were stolen by the ancients.
Man is a shrewd inventor, and is ever taking the hint of a new machine from his own structure, adapting some secret of his own anatomy in iron, wood, and leather, to some required function in the work of the world.
