Mysteries are due to secrecy.
The mould of a man’s fortune is in his own hands.
Be not penny-wise. Riches have wings. Sometimes they fly away of themselves, and sometimes they must be set flying to bring in more.
Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider.
The best armor is to keep out of gunshot.
We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.
Truth is a naked and open daylight.
You are perfect. An exquisitely fine work of art, labor of love, suspended in silence. Bejeweled, trembling, kissed by a breeze, mesmerized by your beauty. You await in silence, beckoning me to a silken-wrapped slumber.
Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.
Life will not bear refinement. You must do as other people do.
Appearances matter – and remember to smile.
The only living works are those which have drained much of the author’s own life into them.
The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.
The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.
We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
Better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt.
We seem but to linger in manhood to tell the dreams of our childhood, and they vanish out of memory ere we learn the language.
His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong.
If it matters, it will hurt like knives or wrap and lift you in the most immeasurable joy. Or both. One thing is certain, you will feel intensely alive.
Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.
I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. The wise instructor accomplishes this by opening to his pupils precisely the attractions the study has for himself. The marking is a system for schools, not for the college; for boys, not for men; and it is an ungracious work to put on a professor.
There mark what ills the scholar’s life assail, toil, envy, want, and patron.
