The eye is easily frightened.
It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune, and when you have it, it requires ten times as much skill to keep it.
Every reform was once a private opinion, and when it shall be a private opinion again, it will solve the problem of the age.
The worst of charity is that the lives you are asked to preserve are not worth preserving.
The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.
Men’s actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.
No man acquires property without acquiring with it a little arithmetic also.
The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.
Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted… but to weigh and consider.
The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
Of what significance are the things you can forget.
The laws of each are convertible into the laws of any other.
Woman is a ray of God. She is not that earthly beloved: she is creative, not created.
We sing in a church, why can we not dance there?
Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.
The gap that’s opened I’m filling with fairy dust, hues of the heart and a joy for life what wasÂ… I invite to exit right quietly, in shades of black and white.
Make yourself necessary to somebody.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
You bring out the be(a)st in me. Polarized tension, a raw slash of claw, swathed softly in love. A peace of my mind in tumultuous chaotic razor-sharp clarity, impulsive wit to wisdom, mixing addictive shots of cocktail emotions in a full-spectrum experience.
Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.
The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.
Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass.
