Nature hates calculators.
The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people.
A man of genius is privileged only as far as he is genius. His dullness is as insupportable as any other dullness.
The measure of a great leader, is their success in bringing everyone around to their opinion twenty years later.
The rich mind lies in the sun and sleeps, and is Nature.
Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.
Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring.
Give me beauty in the inward soul; may the outward and the inward man be at one.
People who are truly strong lift others up. People who are truly powerful bring others together.
One lesson we learn early, that in spite of seeming difference, men are all of one pattern. We readily assume this with our mates, and are disappointed and angry if we find that we are premature, and that their watches are slower than ours. In fact, the only sin which we never forgive in each other is difference of opinion.
I never worry about action, but only inaction.
Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy.
To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise, without being wise: for it is to think that we know what we do not know. For anything that men can tell, death may be the greatest good that can happen to them: but they fear it as if they know quite well that it was the greatest of evils. And what is this but that shameful ignorance of thinking that we know what we do not know?
Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.
What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.
Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.
Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I’ve done it thousands of times.
It were better to be of no church, than to be bitter for any.
Independence? That’s middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.
Really great people make you feel that you, too, can become great.
We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases.
