Shall we judge a country by the majority or by the minority? By the minority surely.
Nature hates calculators.
Nature is what you may do. There is much you may not do.
Wit makes its own welcome and levels all distinctions.
there is no planet, sun, or star could hold you if you but knew what you are.
The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.
We are wiser than we know.
The secret of poetry is never explained - is always new. We have not got farther than mere wonder at the delicacy of the touch, & the eternity it inherits. In every house a child that in mere play utt...
There is one other reason for dressing well, namely that dogs respect it, and will not attack you in good clothes.
We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.
Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
Genius always finds itself a century too early.
The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.
Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
God enters by a private door into every individual.
Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.
If you put a chain around the neck of a slave the other end fastens itself around your own.
Difficulties exist to be surmounted.
The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.
All history is but the lengthened shadow of a great man.