Being is the great explainer.
Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.
I know myself as a human entity; the scene, so to speak, or thoughts are affection; and am sensible of certain doubleness by which I can stand as remote from myself as from another. However intense my experience, I am conscious of the presence and criticism of a part of me, which, as it were, is no part of me, but spectator, sharing no experience, but taking note of it, and that is no more I than it is you.
Experience is in the fingers and head. The heart is inexperienced.
Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.
One little bird not larger than a sparrow, it may have been a Phalarope, would alight on the turbulent surface where the breakers were five or six feet high, and float buoyantly there like a duck, cunningly taking to its wings and lifting itself a few feet through the air over the foaming crest of each breaker, but sometimes outriding safely a considerable billow which hid it some seconds, when its instinct told it that it would not break. It was a little creature thus to sport with the ocean, but it was as perfect a success in its way as the breakers in theirs.
Never do wrong when people are looking.
A man who has no office to go to – I don’t care who he is – is a trial of which you can have no conception.
There is a difference between being convinced and being stubborn.
I had rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world.
We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.
An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.
The only way to know is to live, learn, and grow.
Never learn to do anything. If you don’t learn, you will always find someone else to do it for you.
Don’t be a hard rock when you really are a gem!
Illusion is the first of all pleasures.
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.
Do you know that the tendrils of graft and corruption have become mighty interlacing roots so that even men who would like to be honest are tripped and trapped by them?
The history of persecution is a history of endeavors to cheat nature, to make water run up hill, to twist a rope of sand.
Our humanity is a poor thing, except for the divinity that stirs within us.
Pit race against race, religion against religion, prejudice against prejudice. Divide and conquer! We must not let that happen here.
