I think that we may safely trust a good deal more than we do.
Misfortunes occur only when a man is false.... Events circumstances etc. have their origin in ourselves. They spring from seeds which we have sown.
Events circumstances etc. have their origin in ourselves. They spring from seeds which we have sown.
It is truly enough said that a corporation has no conscience. But a corporation of conscientious men is a corporation with a conscience.
I have an immense appetite for solitude, like an infant for sleep, and if I don't get enough for this year, I shall cry all the next.
In what concerns you much, do not think that you have companions: know that you are alone in the world.
The trees and shrubs rear white arms to the sky on every side; and where were walls and fences, we see forms stretching in frolic gambols across the dusky landscape, as if Nature had strewn her fresh...
A sentence should be read as if its author, had he held a plough instead of a pen, could have drawn a furrow deep and straight to the end.
Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience.
If it is surely the means to the highest end we know, can any work be humble or disgusting? Will it not rather be elevating as a ladder, the means by which we are translated?
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I ha...
How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.
I have seen how the foundations of the world are laid, and I have not the least doubt that it will stand a good while.
When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality.
What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing of the origin and destiny of cats?
What is a course of history, or philosophy, or poetry, no matter how well selected, or the best society, or the most admirable routine of life, compared with the discipline of looking always at what i...
We should go forth on the shortest walk, perchance, in the spirit of undying adventure, never to return; prepared to send back our embalmed hearts only, as relics to our desolate kingdoms. If you are...
To enjoy a thing exclusively is commonly to exlcude yourself from the true enjoyment of it.
To be alone was something unpleasant. But I was at the same time conscious of a slight insanity in my mood, and seemed to foresee my recovery.
There are none happy in the world but beings who enjoy freely a vast horizon—said Damodara,