Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character.
Too many moralists begin with a dislike of reality.
Information’s pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience.
The ant is knowing and wise, but he doesn’t know enough to take a vacation.
You can’t sweep other people off their feet, if you can’t be swept off your own.
Ants are good citizens: they place group interests first.
The egg it is the source of all. Tis everyone’s ancestral hall. The bravest chief that ever fought, The lowest thief that e’er was caught, The harlot’s lip, the maiden’s leg, They each and all came from an egg.
It is fair to judge peoples by the rights they will sacrifice most for.
The real world is not easy to live in. It is rough; it is slippery. Without the most clear-eyed adjustments we fall and get crushed. A man must stay sober; not always, but most of the time.
A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful; but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health.
Knowledge is power. Unfortunate dupes of this saying will keep on creating, ambitiously, till they have stunned their native initiative and made their thoughts weak.
There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.
Be adorable always to each other; respect is everlasting.
Ants are good citizens; they place group interest first. But they carry it so far, they have few or no political rights. An ant doesn’t have the vote, apparently; he just has his duties.
Reason is the servant of instinct.
The creatures that want to live a life of their own, we call wild. If wild, then no matter how harmless, we treat them as outlaws, and those of us who are specially well brought up shoot them for fun.
Dogs have more love than integrity. They’ve been true to us, yes, but they haven’t been true to themselves.
The artistic impulse seems not to wish to produce finished work. It certainly deserts us half-way, after the idea is born; and if we go on, it is labor.
The test of a civilized person is first self-awareness, and then depth after depth of sincerity in self-confrontation.
We talk of our mastery of nature, which sounds very grand; but the fact is we respectfully adapt ourselves, first, to her ways.