Reality is a sliding door.
I look on that man as happy, who, when there is question of success, looks into his work for a reply.
Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of some paper preamble like a Declaration of Independence, or the statute right to vote, by those who have never dared to think or to act.
You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.
It does not need that a poem should be long. Every word was once a poem. Every new relationship is a new word.
The death of a dear friend, wife, brother, lover, which seemed nothing but privation, somewhat later assumes the aspect of a guide or genius; for it commonly operates revolutions in our way of life, terminates an epoch of infancy or of youth which was waiting to be closed, breaks up a wonted occupation, or a household, or style of living, and allows the formation of new ones more friendly to the growth of character.
Art is a jealous mistress; and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.
Insurrection is an art, and like all arts has its own laws.
It is not where you start but how high you aim that matters for success.
O Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand.
If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated?
The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year.
Such as take lodgings in a head that’s to be let unfurnished.
Cultivate kindness today and always.
Property is an intellectual production. The game requires coolness, right reasoning, promptness, and patience in the players.
The money men make lives after them.
Give, even if you only have little.
Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful.
What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.
To choose time is to save time.
Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
Associate reverently, as much as you can, with your loftiest thoughts.
