To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived - that is to have succeeded
Ralph Waldo Emerson
So much of our time is preparation, so much is routine, and so much retrospect, that the path of each man's genius contracts itself to a very few hours.
I am at a loss to understand why people hold Miss Austen's novels at so high a rate, which seem to me vulgar in tone, sterile in artistic invention, imprisoned in their wretched conventions of English society, without genius, wit, or knowledge of the world. Never was life so pinched and narrow. ... All that interests in any character [is this]: has he (or she) the money to marry with? ... Suicide is more respectable.
Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel
It is time to be old, To take in sail: - The god of bounds, Who sets to seas a shore, Came to me in his fatal rounds, And said: 'No more!
It seems to me that perfection of means and confusion of goals seems to characterize our age.
The thing done avails, and not what is said about it. An original sentence, a step forward, is worth more than all the censures.
Nature is too thin a screen; the glory of the omnipresent God bursts through everywhere
Life is too short to waste The critic bite or cynic bark, Quarrel, or reprimand; 'Twill soon be dark; Up! mind thine own aim, and God speed the mark!
For what are they all, in their high conceit, When man in the bush with God may meet?
Flowers are the earth laughing.
The imagination is not a talent of some men but is the health of every man.
But genius looks forward: the eyes of men are set in his forehead, not in his hindhead: man hopes: genius creates.
The years teach us much, which the days never knew.
God made yeast, as well as dough, and loves fermentation just as dearly as he loves vegetation.
Why should I cumber myself with regrets that the receiver is not capacious? It never troubles the sun that some of his rays fall wide and vain into ungrateful space, and only a small part on the reflecting planet. Let your greatness educate the crude and cold companion.
A man is known by the books he reads.
Five minutes of today are worth as much to me, as five minutes in the next millennium. Let us be poised, and wise, and our own, today.
Bare lists of words are found suggestive to an imaginative and excited mind.
Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.
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