Dare to think for yourself.
Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.
Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.
The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too.
God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
The ancients recommended us to sacrifice to the Graces, but Milton sacrificed to the Devil.
Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men’s actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.
The way by which you may get money almost without exception leads downward.
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life… I wanted to live so sturdily and so Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life… to drive life into a corner to know it by experience and be able to give an account of it in my next excursion.
You’ve got to have a good spirit on the inside. That’s what’s really going to make you look like you’re ready to rock the world.
What your heart thinks is great, is great. The soul’s emphasis is always right.
In all evils which admits a remedy, impatience should be avoided, because it wastes the time and attention in complaints which, if properly applied, might remove the cause.
As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.
All endeavor calls for the ability to tramp the last mile, shape the last plan, endure the last hours toil. The fight to the finish spirit is the one… characteristic we must posses if we are to face the future as finishers.
To be furious in religion is to be irreligiously religious.
Difficult to see. Always in motion is the future.
Usually the modest person passes for someone reserved, the silent for a sullen person.
When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.
Nothing is more costly, nothing is more sterile, than vengeance.
A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.
Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles; but character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs.
