Every wall is a door.
By persisting in your path, though you forfeit the little, you gain the great.
To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.
Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit that, unsuspected, ripens with the flower of the pleasure that concealed it.
Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful.
Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are.
The trees are about to show us how lovely it is to let things go.
He who has provoked the shaft of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it.
Disappointment, when it involves neither shame nor loss, is as good as success; for it supplies as many images to the mind, and as many topics to the tongue.
Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.
He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul’s estate.
Tear thyself from delay.
Solitude is impractical and yet society is fatal.
Who has not felt the beauty of a woman’s arm? The unspeakable suggestions of tenderness that lie in the dimpled elbow, and all the varied gently-lessening curves, down to the delicate wrist, with its tiniest, almost imperceptible nicks in the firm softness.
When any real progress is made, we unlearn and learn anew what we thought we knew before.
It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.
God is better served in resisting a Temptation to Evil, than in many formal Prayers.
The more experiments you make the better.
I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government rather than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.
Surely life, if it be not long, is tedious, since we are forced to call in the assistance of so many trifles to rid us of our time, of that time which never can return.
