Travel is a fools paradise.
Enthusiasm is the leaping lightning, not to be measured by the horse-power of the understanding.
Life is a series of surprises and would not be worth taking or keeping if it were not.
Knowledge comes by eyes always open and working hands; and there is no knowledge that is not power.
The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.
Tis a superstition to insist on a special diet. All is made at last of the same chemical atoms.
Not gold but only men can makeA people great and strong;Men who for truth and honors sakeStand fast and suffer long. Brave men who work while others sleep,Who dare while others flyThey build a nations pillars deepAnd lift them to the sky.
Follow your own passion – not your parents’, not your teachers’- yours.
The world is seldom what it seems; to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities.
People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.
Quotation is the highest compliment you can pay to an author.
Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better.
Arguments are like fire-arms which a man may keep at home but should not carry about with him.
One lesson we learn early, that in spite of seeming difference, men are all of one pattern. We readily assume this with our mates, and are disappointed and angry if we find that we are premature, and that their watches are slower than ours. In fact, the only sin which we never forgive in each other is difference of opinion.
The greatest part of a writer’s time is spent in reading, in order to write; a man will turn over half a library to make one book.
I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk.
Lilac anemone, paper petals, turning tentatively to face a pale sun opening to reveal a lightness of being, a flash of gold, a fresh resilience, contented silence, the dawn of a new day.
When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not.
Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barrier of systems.
The characteristic of genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common the heroic.
The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.
What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.
