It is very unhappy, but too late to be helped, the discovery we have made, that we exist.
What torments of grief you endured, from evils that never arrived.
Prosperity is something the businessmen created for politicians to take credit for.
A fly is as untamable as a hyena.
All the thoughts of a turtle are turtle.
Nature and literature are subjective phenomena; every evil and every good thing is a shadow which we cast.
Whoever fights, whoever falls, Justice conquers evermore.
The judge weighs the arguments and puts a brave face on the matter, and since there must be a decision, decides as he can, and hopes he has done justice and given satisfaction to the community.
How painful to give a gift to any person of sensibility, or of equality! It is next worst to receiving one.
The best part of health is fine disposition.
Words are finite expressions of the infinite mind.
I can believe a miracle because I can raise my own arm. I can believe a miracle because I can remember. I can believe it because I can speak and be understood by you.
Our expense is almost all for conformity. It is for cake that we run in debt; ’tis not the intellect, not the heart, not beauty, not worship, that costs so much.
The April winds are magical, And thrill our tuneful frames; The garden-walks are passional To bachelors and dames.
Whom God has put asunder, why should man put together?
The pest of society are the egotist, they are dull and bright, sacred and profane, course and fine. It is a disease that like the flu falls on all constitutions.
The interminable forests should become graceful parks, for use and delight.
Women have a less accurate measure of time than men; there is a clock in Adam, none in Eve.
People only see what they are prepared to see. If you look for what is good and what you can be grateful for you will find it everywhere.
To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven depending on whether they compare it to something better and so feel disappointed and bitter or something worse and so feel relieved and grateful.