Good and evil are so close as to be chained together in the soul.
But a word once spoken who can recapture it?
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive and the true success is to labour.
To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying "Amen" to what the world tells you you ought to prefer is to keep your soul alive.
I never drew a picture of anything that was before me but always from fancy, a sure sign of the absence of artistic eyesight; and I illustrated my lack of real feeling for art by a very early speech:...
We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.
Fear is the strong passion; it is with fear that you must trifle, if you wish to taste the intensest joys of living.
An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.
If it comes to a swinging, swing all, say I.
I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in. As I walked, my mind was busy fitting what I saw with appropriate words; when I sat by the roadside, I would either read or a pencil...
I had learned to dwell with pleasure as a beloved daydream on the thought of the separation of these elements. If each I told myself could be housed in separate identities life would be relieved of al...
Ethics are my veiled mistress; I love them, but know not what they are.
To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you that you ought to prefer is to have kept your soul alive.
You think those dogs will not be in heaven! I tell you they will be there long before any of us.
Extreme busyness is a symptom of deficient vitality, and a faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity.
Make the most of the best and the least of the worst.
The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.
This grove, that was now so peaceful, must then have rung with cries, I thought; and even with the thought I could believe I heard it ringing still.
The captain has said too much or he has said too little, and I'm bound to say that I require an explanation of his words.