Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.
A good indignation brings out all one’s powers.
Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods.
For things to reveal themselves to us, we need to be ready to abandon our views about them.
Some thoughts always find us young, and keep us so. Such a thought is the love of the universal and eternal beauty.
I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of light and speech, and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.
All personal achievement starts in the mind of the individual. Your personal achievement starts in your mind. The first step is to know exactly what your problem, goal or desire is.
If a man could say nothing against a character but what he can prove, history could not be written.
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
I sit on a man’s back choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that i am sorry for him and wish to lighten his load by all means possible….except by getting off his back.
All conservatives are such from personal defects. They have been effeminated by position or nature, born halt and blind, through luxury of their parents, and can only, like invalids, act on the defensive.
I cannot see how a man of any large degree of humorous perception can ever be religious – except he purposely shut the eyes of his mind and keep them shut by force.
The Public is merely a multiplied “me”.
We are ashamed of our thoughts and often see them brought forth by others.
What terrible questions we are learning to ask! The former men believed in magic, by which temples, cities, and men were swallowed up, and all trace of them gone. We are coming on the secret of a magic which sweeps out of men’s minds all vestige of theism and beliefs which they and their fathers held and were framed upon.
Do not tell me of my obligation to put all poor men in good situations. Are they my poor? I tell thee, thou foolish philanthropist, that I grudge the dollar, the dime, the cent, I give to such men as do not belong to me and to whom I do not belong.
Do the wise thing and the kind thing too, and make the best of us and not the worst.
If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don’t be surly at home, then go out in the street and start grinning Good morning at total strangers.
Character is just another word for having a perfectly disciplined and educated will.
Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.
Sir, he was dull in company, dull in his closet, dull everywhere. He was dull in a new way, and that made many people think him great.
