Where a blood relation sobs, an intimate friend should choke up, a distant acquaintance should sigh, a stranger should merely fumble sympathetically with his handkerchief.
If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.
I must walk toward Oregon, and not toward Europe. And that way the nation is moving, and I may say that mankind progress from east to west. We go eastward to realize history and study the works of art and literature, retracing the steps of the race; we go westward as into the future, with a spirit of enterprise and adventure.
Mementos of this world, in which the things worth being were so easily exchanged for the things worth having.
It is seldom that the miserable of the world can help regarding their misery as a wrong inflicted by those who are less miserable.
Our planet is being turned into a filthy and evil-smelling imperialist barrack.
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.
He hates chess. He says it is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something clever when they are only wasting their time.
Language is the dress of thought.
Excellence in any department can be attained only by the labor of a lifetime; it is not to be purchased at a lesser price.
Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.
There are men whose manners have the same essential splendor as the simple and awful sculpture on the friezes of the Parthenon, and the remains of the earliest Greek art.
Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.
Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.
Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.
We do not have to become heroes overnight. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it as not as dreadful as it appears, discovering that we have the strength to stare it down.
We have not so good a right to hate any as our Friend.
As men’s prayers are a disease of the will, so are their creeds a disease of the intellect.
The man who can make hard things easy is the educator.
There is a sort of subjection which is the peculiar heritage of largeness and of love; and strength is often only another name for willing bondage to irremediable weakness.
