That man is idle who can do something better.
Men love to wonder and that is the seed of our science.
I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being perfectly well dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which religion is powerless to bestow.
Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass.
A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.
The foundations of a person are not in matter but in spirit.
Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.
Heroism works in contradiction to the voice of mankind and in contradiction, for a time, to the voice of the great and good. Heroism is an obedience to a secret impulse of an individual.
Stay at home in your mind. Don’t recite other people’s opinions. I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.
The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world is the highest applause.
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.
Most of the shadows of life are caused by standing in our own sunshine.
Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.
Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins.
What your heart thinks is great, is great. The soul’s emphasis is always right.
Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book; a personality which, by birth and quality, is pledged to the doctrines there set forth, and which exists to see and state things so, and not otherwise.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?
Poetry must be as new as foam and as old as the rock.
Art is the path of the creator to his work.
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