You cannot do wrong without suffering wrong.
Accept your genius and say what you think.
Artists must be sacrificed to their art.
Life is short, but there is always time for courtesy.
Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are.
Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.
I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the stern fact, the sad self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.
Infancy conforms to nobody: all conform to it, so that one babe commonly makes four or five out of the adults who prattle and play to it.
Five minutes of today are worth as much to me, as five minutes in the next millennium. Let us be poised, and wise, and our own, today.
Do the thing we fear, and the death of fear is certain.
We fly to beauty as an asylum from the terrors of finite nature.
People only see what they are prepared to see.
There is a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better for worse as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till.
The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
Every revolution was first a thought in one man’s mind.
The only thing grief as taught me is to know how shallow it is.
Sunday is the core of our civilization, dedicated to thought and reverence.
If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap, than his neighbor, though he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door.
Self-trust is the essence of heroism.
The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.
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