The more I see the less I know for sure.
Life on board a pleasure steamer violates every moral and physical condition of healthy life except fresh air. It is a guzzling, lounging, gambling, dog’s life. The only alternative to excitement is irritability.
We are as much informed of a writer’s genius by what he selects as by what he originates.
The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.
Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.
When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.
Force may make hypocrites, but it can never make converts.
The hues of the opal, the light of the diamond, are not to be seen if the eye is too near.
The pains you feel are messengers. Listen to them.
Pit race against race, religion against religion, prejudice against prejudice. Divide and conquer! We must not let that happen here.
The quieter you become, the more you can hear.
Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.
Having each some shingles of thought well dried, we sat and whittled them.
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
What, then, is the true Gospel of consistency? Change. Who is the really consistent man? The man who changes. Since change is the law of his being, he cannot be consistent if he stick in a rut.
Those who cannot tell what they desire or expect, still sigh and struggle with indefinite thoughts and vast wishes.
The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss; and commit to memory the one, and forget and pass over the other.
He who praises every body, praises nobody.
Use every distraction as an object of meditation and they cease to be distractions.
Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
