Reality is a sliding door.
Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.
The rich mind lies in the sun and sleeps, and is Nature.
Every artist was first an amateur.
The colleges, while they provide us with libraries, furnish no professors of books; and I think no chair is so much needed.
One definition of man is an intelligence served by organs.
If a man owns land, the land owns him.
We are just statistics, born to consume resources.
Trust instinct to the end, even though you can give no reason.
Better be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.
The disgrace of others often keeps tender minds from vice.
Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character.
Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days.
I am the flame, electric blue, lightening, razor-like, renewing my spirit. Heart beating in time to the earth’s rhythm and expanse of black ink sky, overreaching eternal. My fingertips spark with seeds of creation, fireworks coloring canvas, beckoned by this light that lifts me.
Composition is, for the most part, an effort of slow diligence and steady perseverance, to which the mind is dragged by necessity or resolution, and from which the attention is every moment starting to more delightful amusements.
The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.
Damn the subjunctive. It brings all our writers to shame.
By his machines man can dive and remain under water like a shark; can fly like a hawk in the air; can see atoms like a gnat; can see the system of the universe of Uriel, the angel of the sun; can carry whatever loads a ton of coal can lift; can knock down cities with his fist of gunpowder; can recover the history of his race by the medals which the deluge, and every creature, civil or savage or brute, has involuntarily dropped of its existence; and divine the future possibility of the planet and its inhabitants by his perception of laws of nature.
The affairs of the world will go on forever. Do not delay the practice of meditation.
The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.
The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.
