It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, - for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it - not in a set way and ostentatiously, though, but incidentally and w...
ولكن هذا الخـَوَر العارض سمة تكاد تعم كل الكائنات التي تعيش في القطيع، فالجواميس البرية في الغرب الأمريكي - ذات الأعراف كألباد الأسود - تحتشد في أعداد تبلغ عشرات الألوف، وتفر هاربة أمام خيّال واحد وتأ...
وكلما ازددتُ تأملا في هذا الذنـَب الجبار زاد أسفي لعجزي عن وصفه. فله في بعض الأحيان حركات وإيماءات صوفية لا تـُفسًّر، وإن الحوت حقا يتحدث بهذه الوسائل إلى الكون في ذكاء وفطنة. وحركات الحوت كلها حافلة...
We are the pioneers of the world; the advance-guard sent on through the wilderness of untried things...
Warmest climes but nurse the cruellest fangs: the tiger of Bengal crouches in spiced groves of ceaseless verdure. Skies the most effulgent but basket the deadliest thunders: gorgeous Cuba knows tornad...
Truly to enjoy bodily warmth, some small part of you must be cold, for there is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast.
Take almost any path you please, and ten to one it carries you down in a dale, and leaves you there by a pool in the stream. There is magic in it. Let the most absent-minded of men be plunged in his d...
So, when on one side you hoist in Locke's head, you go over that way; but now, on the other side, hoist in Kant's and you come back again; but in very poor plight. Thus, some minds for ever keep trimm...
Se questo mondo fosse un piano infinito e navigando a oriente noi potessimo sempre raggiungere nuove distanze e scoprire cose più dolci e nuove di tutte le Cicladi o le Isole del Re Salomone, allora i...
Nothing so aggravates an earnest person as a passive resistance.
Men may seem detestable as joint stock-companies and nations; knaves, fools, and murderers there may be; men may have mean and meagre faces; but man, in the ideal, is so noble and so sparkling, such a...
I promise nothing complete; because any human thing supposed to be complete, must for that very reason infallibly be faulty.
I had the whole road to myself, for no one was yet stirring, and I walked on, with a slouching, dogged gait. The gray shooting-jacket was on my back, and from the end of my brother’s rifle hung a smal...
However, a good laugh is a mighty good thing, and rather too scarce a good thing; the more's the pity. So, if any one man, in his own proper person, afford stuff for a good joke to anybody, let him no...
For though consciences are as unlike as foreheads, every intelligence, not including the Scriptural devils who believe and tremble has one.
For all men tragically great are made so through a certain morbidness. Be sure of this, O young ambition, all mortal greatness is but disease.
But truth is like a thrashing-machine; tender sensibilities must keep out of the way.
At length I fell asleep, with the volume in my hand; and never slept so sound before
And how nobly it raises our conceit of the mighty, misty monster, to behold him solemnly sailing through a calm tropical sea; his vast, mild head overhung by a canopy of vapor, engendered by his incom...