The eye is easily frightened.
One ought never to turn one’s back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!
Self-trust is the essence of heroism.
In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs.
Nothing astonishes people so much as common sense and plain dealing.
Every wall is a door.
Do the thing we fear, and the death of fear is certain.
I don’t think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking theres some kind of change.
Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still fowl, blinking at you without remark, may all the while be sitting on one addled egg…
The responsibility of tolerance lies in those who have the wider vision.
I am easily satisfied with the very best.
Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.
Mysteries are due to secrecy.
We are apt to love praise, but not deserve it. But if we would deserve it, we must love virtue more than that.
Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time.
Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.
The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
To act from pure benevolence is not possible for finite human beings, Human benevolence is mingled with vanity, interest, or some other motive.
Images also help me find and realise ideas. I look at hundreds of very different, contrasting images and I pinch details from them, rather like people who eat from other people
Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one’s self?
Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.
