This world is but a canvas to our imaginations. |
Those who work much do not work hard |
Those whom we can love, we can hate; to others we are indifferent. |
Thought is the sculptor who can create the person you want to be. |
Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbors. |
Through want of enterprise and faith men are where they are, buying and selling and spending their lives like servants. |
Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. |
Time is but the stream I go fishing in. I drink at it, but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. It's thin current slides away, but eternity remains. |
To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit it and read it are old women over their tea |
To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of the arts. |
To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but to so love wisdom as to live according to its dictates a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity and trust. |
To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts; but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates. |
To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle. |
To him whose elastic and vigorous thought keeps pace with the sun, the day is a perpetual morning |
To inherit property is not to be born - is to be stillborn, rather |