I’ve always felt that your belongings have never been on a level with you.
In Rome it seems as if there were so many things which are more wanted in the world than pictures.
Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities.
If you could only speak the devil fair enough, he might save you the cost of the doctor. Such strange lingering echoes of the old demon-worship might perhaps even now be caught by the diligent listene...
Everybody liked better to conjecture how the thing was, than simply to know it; for conjecture soon became more confident than knowledge, and had a more liberal allowance for the incompatible.
The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.
The years seem to rush by now and I think of death as a fast approaching end of a journey-double and treble reason for loving as well as working while it is day.
In the multitude of middle-aged men who go about their vocations in a daily course determined for them much in the same way as they tie their cravats there is always a good number who once meant to s...
Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.
I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.
We begin by knowing little and believing much, and we sometimes end by inverting the quantities.
There’s Jeremy Taylor’s ‘Holy Living and Dying’ among ‘em. I read
Sane people did what their neighbors did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.
Ingenious philosophers tell you, perhaps, that the great work of the steam-engine is to create leisure for mankind. Do not believe them: it only creates a vacuum for eager thought to rush in. Even idl...
I wonder if any other girl thinks her father the best man in the world!Nonsense, child; you'll think your husband better.Impossible, said Mary, relapsing into her usual tone; husbands are an inferior...
I never had any preference for her, any more than I have a preference for breathing.
I am not quite sure whether clever men ever dance.
After all, the true seeing is within.
Excellence encourages one about life generally it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.