Hitch your wagon to a star.
Give me insight into today and you may have the antique and future worlds.
A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.
No matter how often you are defeated, you are born to victory.
The key to every man is his thought. Sturdy and defying though he look, he has a helm which he obeys, which is the idea after which all his facts are classified. He can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which commands his own.
In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.
Who you are speaks so loudly I can’t hear what you’re saying.
Opening amenities are often opening inanities.
How many attractions for us have our passing fellows in the streets, both male and female, which our ethics forbid us to express, which yet infuse so much pleasure into life. A lovely child, a handsome youth, a beautiful girl, a heroic man, a maternal woman, a venerable old man, charm us, though strangers, and we cannot say so, or look at them but for a moment.
There is nothing assured to mortals.
Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.
God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.
Don’t try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.
I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music.
Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop.
Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.
A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.
Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.
Oftentimes, it’s the way we react to change that is the thing that determines the overall experience.
Happiness is a perfume which you cannot pour on someone without getting some on yourself.
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.
