Genius Borrows nobly.
Beauty is the mark God sets on virtue. Every natural action is graceful; every heroic act is also decent, and causes the place and the bystanders to shine.
Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.
Some of your grief you have cured, and lived to survive; but what torments of pain have you endured that haven’t as yet arrived.
Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.
There is a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better for worse as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till.
There is this to be said in favor of drinking, that it takes the drunkard first out of society, then out of the world.
I encourage you to live with life. Be courageous, adventurous. Give us a tomorrow, more than we deserve.
Not gold but only men can makeA people great and strong;Men who for truth and honors sakeStand fast and suffer long. Brave men who work while others sleep,Who dare while others flyThey build a nations pillars deepAnd lift them to the sky.
Softness has such a power to it. When you choose to soften into something, it relaxes, opens, tension releases. Stuck energy flows like blood coursing through veins, bringing much needed oxygen. Life force and warmth enters, connection is rekindled. Find the trust you need to allow softness in; it really is healing.
The blaze of reputation cannot be blown out, but it often dies in the socket; a very few names may be considered as perpetual lamps that shine unconsumed.
As an example to others, and not that I care for moderation myself, it has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep and never to refrain when awake.
Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.
A man thinks as well through his legs and arms as this brain.
Nothing is so exhilarating in life as to be shot at with no result.
I do not hold that we should rearm in order to fight. I hold that we should rearm in order to parley.
We need not worry so much about what man descends from; it’s what he descends to that shames the human race.
He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend; provided, of course, he really is dead.
Wisdom begins in wonder.
Being is the great explainer.
Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.
The responsibility of tolerance lies in those who have the wider vision.
