Every wall is a door.
There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion. Every sentence is doubly significant, and the sense of our author is as broad as the world.
I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and new.
Religion is as effectually destroyed by bigotry as by indifference.
People do not deserve to have good writings; they are so pleased with the bad.
If a man owns land, the land owns him.
Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one’s self?
For the most important decisions in your life, trust your intuition, and then work with everything you have, to prove it right.
Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
I have never felt that anything really mattered but knowing that you stood for the things in which you believed and had done the very best you could.
It’s your life-but only if you make it so.
Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible.
When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation.
It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.
See one promontory, one mountain, one sea, one river and see all.
It’s not given to people to judge what’s right or wrong. People have eternally been mistaken and will be mistaken, and in nothing more than in what they consider right and wrong.
It really boils down to this: that all life is interrelated. We are all caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.
I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: “O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.” And God granted it.
For so many people, TV and movies may be the only way they understand people who aren’t like them. It becomes important for the world to see different images of each other, so that we can develop empathy and understanding.
I hate this shallow Americanism which hopes to get rich by credit, to get knowledge by raps on midnight tables, to learn the economy of the mind by phrenology, or skill without study, or mastery without apprenticeship.
Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
