Sometimes gentle sometimes capricious sometimes awful never the same for two moments together almost human in its passions almost spiritual in its tenderness almost Divine in its infinity.
The greatest efforts of the race have always been traceable to the love of praise as the greatest catastrophes to the love of pleasure.
Every increased possession loads us with new weariness.
It's unwise to pay too much, but it's worse to pay too little. Whenyou pay too much, you lose a little money - that's all. When you paytoo little, you sometimes lose everything, because the thing youb...
Do not think of your faults, still less of other's faults look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.
How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?
The beauty of the animal form is in exact proportion to the amount of moral and intellectual virtue expressed by it.
No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder.
All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.
The child who desires education will be bettered by it the child who dislikes it disgraced.
When men are rightly occupied their amusement grows out of their work as the color-petals out of a fruitful flower.
When I have been unhappy I have heard an opera ... and it seemed the shrieking of winds when I am happy a sparrow's chirp is delicious to me. But it is not the chirp that makes me happy but I that...
Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless peacocks and lilies for instance.
Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions.
No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases.
You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil buy it, by compromise with evil.
No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish.
The highest reward for man's toil is not what he gets for it but what he becomes by it.
I believe that the first test of a great man is his humility. I don't mean by humility, doubt of his power. But really great men have a curious feeling that the greatness is not of them, but through t...
Say all you have to say in the fewest possible words, or your reader will be sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words or he will certainly misunderstand them.