We live amid surfaces, and the true art of life is to skate well on them
Walking has the best value as gymnastics of the mind.
Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places. At home I dream that at Naples, at Rome, I can be intoxicated with beauty, and lose my sadness. I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the stern fact, the sad self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from. I seek the Vatican, and the palaces. I affect to be intoxicated with sights and suggestions, but I am not intoxicated. My giant goes with me wherever I go.
Many photographers think they are photographing nature when they are only caricaturing her.
Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.
For nonconformity the world will whip you with its displeasure.
Words are alive. Cut them and they bleed.
All science has one aim, namely, to find a theory of nature.
Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society.
That man is idle who can do something better.
All that can be done for you is nothing to what you can do for yourself.
I am thankful for small mercies. I compared notes with one of my friends who expect everything of the universe, and is disappointed when anything is less than the best, and I found that I begin at the other extreme, expecting nothing, and am always full of thanks for moderate good. . . . If we will take the good we find, . . . we shall have heaping measures. . . .
The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.
There are no fixtures in nature. The universe is fluid and volatile. Permanence is but a word of degrees.
He is great who is what he is from nature, and who never reminds us of others.
There are always two parties; the establishment and the movement.
I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges and names, to large societies and dead institutions.
I wish that life should not be cheap, but sacred. I wish the days to be as centuries, loaded, fragrant.
The need for a rational consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds.
God builds his temple in the heart on the ruins of churches and religions.
The eloquent man is he who is no beautiful speaker, but who is inwardly and desperately drunk with a certain belief.
Language is the archives of history.
Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.
Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey the laws too well.
For the resolute and determined, there is time and opportunity.
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