Gather ye rose-buds while ye may Old time is still a-flying. And this same flower that smiles today Tomorrow will be dying.
When a dog runs at you whistle for him.
One cannot too soon forget his errors and misdemeanors.
It is only when we forget our learning, do we begin to know.
To read well, that is, to read true books in a true spirit, is a noble exercise, and one that will task the reader more than any exercise which the customs of the day esteem. It requires a training su...
The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected.
We might climb a tree, at least.
This whole earth which we inhabit is but a point in space. How far apart, think you, dwell the most distant inhabitants of yonder star, the breadth of whose disk cannot be appreciated by our instrumen...
Some of you, we all know, are poor, find it hard to live, are sometimes, as it were, gasping for breath. I have no doubt that some of you who read this book are unable to pay for all the dinners which...
Morning brings back the heroic ages.
Men say they know many things;But lo! they have taken wings, —The arts and sciences,And a thousand appliances;The wind that blowsIs all that any body knows
If there is any hell more unprincipled than our rulers, and we, the ruled, I feel curious to see it.
I am too high born to be propertied, To be a second at control, Or useful serving-man and instrument To any sovereign state throughout the world.
For many years I was self-appointed inspector of snowstorms and rain-storms and did my duty faithfully.
The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend.
Never look back unless you are planning to go that way
All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.
It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.
If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.