Children are all foreigners.
Preaching is the expression of moral sentiments applied to the duties of life.
How much of human life is lost in waiting.
Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins.
Nature hates calculators.
Always do what you are afraid to do.
Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book; a personality which, by birth and quality, is pledged to the doctrines there set forth, and which exists to see and state things so, and not otherwise.
I think I can say, and say with pride, that we have some legislatures that bring higher prices than any in the world.
All my best thoughts were stolen by the ancients.
How many are the things I can do without!
The thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me.
Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.
How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book! The book exists for us, perchance, that will explain our miracles and reveal new ones. The at present unutterable things we may find somewhere uttered.
Responsibilities are given to him on whom trust rests. Responsibility is always a sign of trust.
Players, Sir! I look on them as no better than creatures set upon tables and joint stools to make faces and produce laughter, like dancing dogs.
A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses.
Winners never quit and quitters never win.
The giving of love is an education in itself.
God is better served in resisting a Temptation to Evil, than in many formal Prayers.
A man cannot speak but he judges himself. With his will or against his will he draws his portrait to the eye of his companions by every word. Every opinion reacts on him who utters it. It is a threadball thrown at a mark, but the other end remains on the thrower.
Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.
And when a woman’s will is as strong as the man’s who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.