We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a belly-full of words and do not know a thing. The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means of education.
PATIENCE YOU MUST HAVE my young padawan.
The line of beauty is the line of perfect economy.
Arguments are like fire-arms which a man may keep at home but should not carry about with him.
Morality is suspecting other people of not being legally married.
The idea of perfection always gives one a chance to talk without knowing facts.
The thirst for adventure is the vent which Destiny offers; a war, a crusade, a gold mine, a new country, speak to the imagination and offer swing and play to the confined powers.
He is no wise man who will quit a certainty for an uncertainty.
Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.
Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast.
One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals.
For character too is a process and an unfolding… among our valued friends is there not someone or other who is a little too self confident and disdainful; whose distinguished mind is a little spotted with commonness; who is a little pinched here and protuberant there with native prejudices; or whose better energies are liable to lapse down the wrong channel under the influence of transient solicitations?
One thing life has taught me: if you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They come to you. When you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else.
Absolutely speaking, Do unto others as you would that they should do unto you is by no means a golden rule, but the best of current silver. An honest man would have but little occasion for it. It is golden not to have any rule at all in such a case.
Why do you hasten to remove anything which hurts your eye, while if something affects your soul you postpone the cure until next year?
A fly may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still.
There are few minds to which tyranny is not delightful.
I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
Being challenged in life is inevitable, being defeated is optional.
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
Opinions have vested interests just as men have.
