Today is a king in disguise.
The power of love, as the basis of a State, has never been tried.
The key to every man is his thought. He can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which commands his own.
You cannot do wrong without suffering wrong.
The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.
Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life.
There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion. Every sentence is doubly significant, and the sense of our author is as broad as the world.
Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.
If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.
We must be our own before we can be another’s.
Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
We’re comic. We’re all comics. We live in a comic time. And the worse it gets the more comic we are.
The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.
Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.
We fly to beauty as an asylum from the terrors of finite nature.
Ideas must work through the brains and the arms of good and brave men, or they are no better than dreams.
All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
This comes of James teaching me to think for myself, and never to hold back out of fear of what other people may think of me. It works beautifully as long as I think the same things as he does.
Don’t try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.
We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.
The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity. The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
Best friends that pick wedgies together stay besties for life!
