Life too near paralyses art.
Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success.
Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds.
We boast our emancipation from many superstitions; but if we have broken any idols, it is through a transfer of idolatry.
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
All mankind love a lover.
For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.
Being is the great explainer.
There must be what Mr. Gladstone many years ago called a blessed act of oblivion. We must all turn our backs upon the horrors of the past. We must look to the future. We cannot afford to drag forward across the years that are to come the hatreds and revenges which have sprung from the injuries of the past.
Be a little careful about your library. Do you foresee what you will do with it? Very little to be sure. But the real question is, What it will do with you?
A few strong instincts and a few plain rules suffice us.
The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors.
Nature has made up her mind that what cannot defend itself shall not be defended.
Knowledge does not come to us in details, but in flashes of light from heaven.
Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
By his father he is English, by his mother he is Americanto my mind the blend which makes the perfect man.
If you want to get what you want give up being right.
I do not like work even when someone else does it.
Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along.
I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep I wrote in the dark.
The power of love, as the basis of a State, has never been tried.
Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
