Being is the great explainer.
I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
The way by which you may get money almost without exception leads downward.
To him whom contemplates a trait of natural beauty, no harm nor despair can come. The doctrines of despair, spiritual or political servitude, were never taught by those who shared the serenity of Nature. For each phase of Nature, though not invisible, is yet not too distinct or obtrusive. It is there to be found when we look for it, but not too demanding of our attention.
The stars are the apexes of what triangles!
What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.
Even the best things are not equal to their fame.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
Where a blood relation sobs, an intimate friend should choke up, a distant acquaintance should sigh, a stranger should merely fumble sympathetically with his handkerchief.
Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present.
There are only two forces that can carry light to all the corners of the globe… the sun in the heavens and the Associated Press down here.
All the sweetness of religion is conveyed to the world by the hands of story-tellers and image-makers. Without their fictions the truths of religion would for the multitude be neither intelligible nor even apprehensible; and the prophets would prophesy and the teachers teach in vain.
Painting was called silent poetry and poetry speaking painting.
No facts are to me sacred; none are profane; I simply experiment, an endless seeker, with no past at my back.
Winning is not a sometime thing; it’s an all the time thing. You don’t win once in a while you don’t do things right once in a while you do them right all the time. Winning is habit.
Every thought which genius and piety throw into the world alters the world.
Who prays for Satan? Who, in 1,800 years, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?
We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint.
Pleasure that is obtained by unreasonable and unsuitable cost, must always end in pain.
The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.
We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.
