I quietly declare war with the State, after my fashion, though I will still make use and get advantage of her as I can, as is usual in such cases.
I have been breaking silence these twenty-three years and have hardly made a rent in it.
The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest.
We hear and apprehend only what we already half know.
I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.
How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book! The book exists for us, perchance, that will explain our miracles and reveal new ones. The at present unutterable things we may find somewhere uttered.
Thought is the sculptor who can create the person you want to be.
The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?
The heart is forever inexperienced.
Each thought that is welcomed and recorded is a nest egg by the side of which more will be laid.
A man thinks as well through his legs and arms as this brain.
The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.
It requires nothing less than a chivalric feeling to sustain a conversation with a lady.
You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this.
I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
If misery loves company, misery has company enough.
Experience is in the fingers and head. The heart is inexperienced.
Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.
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