We are wiser than we know.
Earth laughs in flowers.
When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
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.
Commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred.
A man’s style is his mind’s voice. Wooden minds, wooden voices.
People wish to be settled. It is only as far as they are unsettled that there is any hope for them.
Oh man! There is no planet sun or star could hold you, if you but knew what you are.
To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.
A man’s ignorance sometimes is not only useful, but beautiful-while his knowledge, so called, is oftentimes worse than useless, besides being ugly.
While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till grief be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.
The amount of people in this world who are here to do something great far outweighs the rest.
No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence.
The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.
Knowledge is power.
We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills;we shall never surrender.
At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins.
Choose people who lift you up.
Hell is paved with good intentions, not with bad ones. All men mean well.
I suppose every old scholar has had the experience of reading something in a book which was significant to him, but which he could never find again. Sure he is that he read it there, but no one else ever read it, nor can he find it again, though he buy the book and ransack every page.
A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
He was dull in a new way, and that made many think him great.
