The true harvest of my life is intangible - a little star dust caught, a portion of the rainbow I have clutched |
The universe is wider than our views of it. |
The universe seems bankrupt as soon as we begin to discuss the character of individuals |
The volatile truth of our words should continually betray the inadequacy of the residual statement. |
The way by which you may get money almost without exception leads downward. |
The way in which men cling to old institutions after the life has departed out of them, and out of themselves, reminds me of those monkeys which cling by their tails -- aye, whose tails contract about the limbs, even the dead limbs, of the forest, and they hang suspended beyond the hunter's reach long after they are dead. It is of no use to argue with such men. They have not an apprehensive intellect, but merely, as it were a prehensile tail. |
The words of some men are thrown forcibly against you and adhere like burrs |
The words which express our faith and piety are not definite; yet they are significant and fragrant like frankincense to superior natures. |
The works of the great poets have never yet been read by mankind, for only great poets can read them |
The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them. |
There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root. |
There are continents and seas in the moral world, to which every man is an isthmus or inlet, yet unexplored by him. |
There are nine hundred and ninety-nine patrons of virtue to one virtuous man. |
There are now-a-days professors of philosophy but not philosophers |
There is a difference between eating and drinking for strength and for mere gluttony. |