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...
If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and adore.
Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.
Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.
Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.
For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.
Ah if the rich were rich as the poor fancy riches!
I find the Englishman to be him of all men who stands firmest in his shoes.
Whatever course you decide upon there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a cour...
A day is a miniature eternity.
The earth laughs in flowers.
A man is a hero, not because he is braver than anyone else, but because he is brave for ten minutes longer.
We are like travelers using the cinders of a volcano to roast their eggs.
The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is that it scatters your force. It loses your time and blurs the impression of your character.
Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it
Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed. When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost work but the solidest things we know.
A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking.
For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom.
Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.