Do you see that kitten chasing so prettily her own tail? If you could look with her eyes, you might see her surrounded with hundreds of figures performing complex dramas, with tragic and comic issues, long conversations, many characters, many ups and downs of fate.
Plato says that the punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is, to live under the government of worse men; and the like regret is suggested to all the auditors, as the penalty of abstaining to speak, – that they shall hear worse orators than themselves.
Money is the representative of a certain quantity of corn or other commodity. It is so much warmth, so much bread.
The world is his who has money to go over it.
There is always room for a person of force and they make room for many.
Liberty is slow fruit. It is never cheap; it is made difficult because freedom is the accomplishment and perfectness of man.
Few people have any next, they live from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their line.
To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs.
I know and see too well, when not voluntarily blind, the speedy limits opersons called high and worthy.
A mob is a society obodies, voluntarily bereaving themselves oreason, and traversing its work. The mob is man, voluntarily descending to the nature othe beast. Its fit hour oactivity is night; its actions are insane, like its whole constitution.
I find nothing in fables more astonishing than my experience in every hour. One moment of a man’s life is a fact so stupendous as to take the luster out of fiction.
The dearest events are summer-rain.
Life is a series of surprises.
Life is a boundless privilege, and when you pay for your ticket, and get into the car, you have no guess what good company you shall find there.
Life wastes itself whilst we are preparing to live.
There is this to be said in favor of drinking, that it takes the drunkard first out of society, then out of the world.
All poets have signalized their consciousness of rare moments when they were superior to themselves, -when a light, a freedom, a power came to them which lifted them to performances far better than they could reach at other times.
The secret of drunkenness is, that it insulates us in thought, whilst it unites us in feeling.
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no person can sincerely try to help another without helping him or herself. Serve and you shall be served. If you love and serve people, you cannot, by any hiding or stratagem, escape the remuneration.
Outside among your fellows, among strangers, you must preserve appearances, a hundred things you cannot do; but inside, the terrible freedom.