The nonconformist and the rebel say all manner of unanswerable things against the existing republic, but discover to our sense no plan of house or state of their own.
If you visit your friend, why need you apologize for not having visited him, and waste his time and deface your own act? Visit him now.
The way to learn German, is, to read the same dozen pages over and over a hundred times, till you know every word and particle in them, and can pronounce and repeat them by heart.
The great poet makes us feel our own wealth, and then we think less of his compositions. His best communication to our mind is to teach us to despise all he has done.
So all that is said of the wise man by Stoic or Oriental or modern essayist, describes to each reader his own idea, describes his unattained but attainable self.
But in our experience, man is cheap and friendship wants its deep sense. We affect to dwell with our friends in their absence, but we do not; when deed, word, or letter comes not, they let us go.
Infancy is the perpetual Messiah, which comes into the arms of fallen men, and pleads with them to return to paradise.
The Same, the Same: friend and foe are of one stuff; the ploughman, the plough, and the furrow, are of one stuff; and the stuff is such, and so much, that the variations of form are unimportant.
The terrors of the child are quite reasonable, and add to his loveliness; for his utter ignorance and weakness, and his enchanting indignation on such a small basis of capital compel every bystander to take his part.
A determined man, by his very attitude and the tone of his voice, puts a stop to defeat, and begins to conquer.
Defect in manners is usually the defect of fine perceptions. Elegance comes of no breeding, but of birth.
When a dog is chasing after you, whistle for him.
Art is evidence of our most creative moment.
For every seeing soul, there are two absorbing facts – I, and the abyss.
Don’t ever give up on something or someone that you can’t go a full day without thinking about.
The universe is represented in every one of it’s particles. Everything is made of one hidden stuff. The world globes itself in a drop of dew. The true doctrine of omnipresence is that God appears with all His parts in every moss and cobweb.
Plant your DREAMS and miracles will grow.
The case wouldn’t be overweight if you didn’t have so many shoes. How many do you really need? This pair, for example, I swear you never even wore them.
If the whole of history is in one man, it is all to be explained from individual experience.
It sometimes occurs that memory has a personality of its own and volunteers or refuses its information at its will, not at mine.