There was never a century nor a country that was short of experts who knew the Deity’s mind and were willing to reveal it.
What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years at least.
The public is a ferocious beast; one must either chain it or flee from it.
What is Man? Man is a noisome bacillus whom Our Heavenly Father created because he was disappointed in the monkey.
Choose people who lift you up.
Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.
Tis the good reader that makes the good book; in every book he finds passages which seem to be confidences or sides hidden from all else and unmistakably meant for his ear; the profit of books is according to the sensibility of the reader; the profound thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until it is discovered by an equal mind and heart.
They teach the morals of a whore, and the manners of a dancing master.
Your fingers caress my heart strings, shaping a silent sonnet in notes of love. Transcending space and time, bathing the ether in perfect harmony.
In statesmanship get the formalities right, never mind about the moralities.
We are prisoners of ideas.
Those who would mend the world must first mend themselves.
Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.
But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?
I look up at the universe and ask, What are you trying to teach me here?’ I know I won’t hear a reply, but asking the question, makes me begin looking for the answer.
You will know (the good from the bad) when you are calm, at peace. Passive.
Although personally I am quite content with existing explosives, I feel we must not stand in the path of improvement.
No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes, than a public library.
Sympathetic people often don’t communicate well, they back reflected images which hide their own depths.
