We have more than we use.
It is impossible for a man to be cheated by anyone but himself.
The surest poison is time.
I am not much an advocate for traveling, and I observe that men run away to other countries because they are not good in their own, and run back to their own because they pass for nothing in the new places. For the most part, only the light characters travel. Who are you that have no task to keep you at home?
The results of life are uncalculated and uncalculable. The years teach much which the days never know. The persons who compose our company, converse, and come and go, and design and execute many things, and somewhat comes of it all, but an unlooked for result. The individual is always mistaken. He designed many things, and drew in other persons as coadjutors, quarrelled with some or all, blundered much, and something is done; all are a little advanced, but the individual is always mistaken. It turns out somewhat new, and very unlike what he promised himself.
When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
If we live truly, we shall see truly.
Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.
Intellectual work is misnamed; it is a pleasure, a dissipation, and is its own highest reward.
Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible.
There are many scapegoats for our sins, but the most popular is providence.
None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
For what is love itself, for the one we love best? An enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love.
The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.
I believe in Michelangelo, Velasquez, and Rembrandt; in the might of design, the mystery of color, the redemption of all things by Beauty everlasting, and the message of Art that has made these hands blessed. Amen. Amen.
The envious person grows lean with the fatness of their neighbor.
The man who leaves money to charity in his will is only giving away what no longer belongs to him.
Understanding is a two-way street.
You may try but you can never imagine what it is to have a man’s form of genius in you, and to suffer the slavery of being a girl.
Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.
Every burned book or house enlightens the world; every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side.
Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
