We sing in a church, why can we not dance there?
The best efforts of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.
Life is one long process of getting tired.
The sky was the color of hard crimson, dripping down a canvas, the moon splashed silver across red. Her soothing balm healing my soul in swathes of calmness, I breathe in her tides and let my body be washed ashore, lying in the sands of eternity.
Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers.
If we don’t occupy ourself with everything, then peaceful mind will have nowhere to abide.
In a serious struggle there is no worse cruelty than to be magnanimous at an inopportune time.
You can always count on Americans to do the right thing – after they’ve tried everything else.
The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistorical acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.
More knowledge may be gained of a man’s real character by a short conversation with one of his servants than from a formal and studied narrative, begun with his pedigree and ended with his funeral.
Hurricanes are named after people, baby, and I hope you know that falling in love with me will be so much more treacherous than boarding up the windows and waiting for me to pass.
In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.
The soul is pure when it leaves the body and drags nothing bodily with it, by virtue of having no willing association with the body in life but avoiding it… Practicing philosophy in the right way is a training to die easily.
Let him that would move the world, first move himself.
Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.
Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still fowl, blinking at you without remark, may all the while be sitting on one addled egg…
I began to realize how important it was to be an enthusiast in life. White hot and passionate is the only thing to be.
Words are but the signs of ideas.
It is better to be a young June-bug than an old bird of paradise.
There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either.
God screens us evermore from premature ideas.
