I hate the irreverent rabble and keep them far from me.
As to the rout that is made about people who are ruined by extravagance, it is no matter to the nation that some individuals suffer. When so much general productive exertion is the consequence of luxury, the nation does not care though there are debtors; nay, they would not care though their creditors were there too.
The first thing a great person does, is make us realize the insignificance of circumstance.
How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?
There is much pain that is quite noiseless; and vibrations that make human agonies are often a mere whisper in the roar of hurrying existence. There are glances of hatred that stab and raise no cry of murder; robberies that leave man or woman for ever beggared of peace and joy, yet kept secret by the sufferer –committed to no sound except that of low moans in the night, seen in no writing except that made on the face by the slow months of suppressed anguish and early morning tears. Many an inherited sorrow that has marred a life has been breathed into no human ear.
The education of the will is the object of our existence.
That strong mother doesn’t tell her cub Son, stay weak so the wolves can get you’. She says, Toughen up, this is reality we are living in’.
Keep true, never be ashamed of doing right; decide on what you think is right and stick to it.
Life consists in what a person is thinking of all day.
Fate, then, is a name for facts not yet passed under the fire of thought; for causes which are unpenetrated.
Nations! What are nations? Tartars! and Huns! and Chinamen! Like insects they swarm. The historian strives in vain to make them memorable. It is for want of a man that there are so many men. It is individuals that populate the world.
To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, an they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.
I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a Mind.
My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.
But most of us are apt to settle within ourselves that the man who blocks our way is odious, and not to mind causing him a little of the disgust which his personality excites in ourselves.
The colleges, while they provide us with libraries, furnish no professors of books; and I think no chair is so much needed.
In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.
We love and lose in China, we weep on England’s moors, and laugh and moan in Guinea, and thrive on Spanish shores. We seek success in Finland, are born and die in Maine. In minor ways we differ, in major we’re the same.
If your mind isn’t clouded by unnecessary things, this is the best season of your life.
In all our contacts it is probably the sense of being really needed and wanted which gives us the greatest satisfaction and creates the most lasting bond.
Know that the amount of criticism you receive may correlate somewhat to the amount of publicity you receive.
