Hitch your wagon to a star.
The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people.
What is life but the angle of vision? A man is measured by the angle at which he looks at objects. What is life but what a man is thinking of all day? This is his fate and his employer. Knowing is the measure of the man. By how much we know, so much we are.
The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain.
Beauty is the pilot of the young soul.
Why should we be cowed by the name of Action?
If you believe in fate, believe in it, at least, for your good.
Science does not know its debt to imagination.
To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust. It is to solve some of the problems of life, not only theoretically, but practically.
If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.
Dharma is what the Buddha taught. It is the way of understanding and love-how to understand, how to love, how to make understanding and love into real things.
When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless.
I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man’s virtues the means of deceiving him.
Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.
We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.
Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.
The savage in man is never quite eradicated.
We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world; and its efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don’t know anything and can’t read.
But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?
I am easily satisfied with the very best.
