A wise man will know what game to play to-day, and play it. We must not be governed by rigid rules, as by the almanac, but let the season rule us. The moods and thoughts of man are revolving just as s...
Some of my pleasantest hours were during the long rain-storms in the spring or fall, which confined me to the house for the afternoon as well as the forenoon, soothed by their ceaseless roar and pelti...
There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.
City life - millions of people being lonesome together.
There is a difference between eating and drinking for strength and from mere gluttony.
Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.
Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.
Gnaw your own bone gnaw at it bury it unearth it gnaw it still.
Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.
I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
If there is any hell more unprincipled than our rulers, and we, the ruled, I feel curious to see it.
What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.
One cannot too soon forget his errors and misdemeanors.
Visit the Navy-Yard, and behold a marine, such a man as an American government can make, or such as it can make a man with its black arts, -a mere shadow and reminiscence of humanity, a man laid out a...
The boy gathers materials for a temple, and then when he is thirty, concludes to build a woodshed
Is there not a sort of blood shed when the conscience is wounded? Through this wound a man's real manhood and immortality flow out, and he bleeds to an everlasting death
Philanthropy is. . . greatly overrated. A pain in the gut is not sympathy for the underprivileged, but the result of eating a green apple; the philanthropist gives to ease his own pain.
Si tenéis alguna empresa ante vosotros, tratad de hacerla con las ropas viejas. A los hombres les hace falta, no algo con lo que hacer, sino algo que hacer, o mejor, algo que ser. Tal vez no deberíamo...
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