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…
The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.
He looks the whole world in the face for he owes not any man.
Men over forty are no judges of a book written in a new spirit.
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
Poverty consist in feeling poor.
You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.
I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.
The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
Esther liked books out where everyone could see them, a sort of graphic index to the intricate labyrinth of her mind arrayed to impress the most casual guest, a system of immediate introduction which she had found to obtain in a number of grimy intellectual households in Greenwich Village.
Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.
Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them.
The more I see the less I know for sure.
Difficult do you call it, Sir? I wish it were impossible.
As the physically weak man can make himself strong by careful and patient training, so the man of weak thoughts can make them strong by exercising himself in right thinking.
Big doors swing on little hinges.
I hate mankind, for I think of myself as one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.
The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.
The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.
Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in?
We know there is intention and purpose in the universe, because there is intention and purpose in us.
