The secret of all good writing is sound judgment.
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
This is the ultimate end of man, to find the One which is in him; which is his truth, which is his soul; the key with which he opens the gate of the spiritual life, the heavenly kingdom.
The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.
In sculpture did ever anybody call the Apollo a fancy piece? Or say of the Laocoon how it might be made different? A masterpiece of art has in the mind a fixed place in the chain of being, as much as a plant or a crystal.
Events can neither be regarded as a series of adventures nor strung on the thread of a preconceived moral. They must obey their own laws.
The memory of a day like today reminds me to hold the ones I love that much tighter, that much longer… Take that much more time to be present and to feel the blessing of another day…
Duties are not performed for duty’s sake, but because their neglect would make the man uncomfortable. A man performs but one duty -the duty of contenting his spirit, the duty of making himself agreeable to himself.
Some will always be above others. Destroy the inequality today, and it will appear again tomorrow.
Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it come to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.
We are wiser than we know.
I don’t need an alarm clock. My ideas wake me.
Being is the great explainer.
This gives force to the strong — that the multitude have no habit of self-reliance or original action.
To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.
I was born upon thy bank, river, my blood flows in thy stream, and thou meanderest forever. At the bottom of my dream.
God’s first creature, which was light.
I am easily satisfied with the very best.
I pay the schoolmaster, but it is the school boys who educate my son.
True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
If people misunderstand you, do not worry…it is your voice that they hear, but what goes through their mind is…their own thoughts.
