As for the pyramids, there is nothing to wonder at in them so much as the fact that so many men could be found degraded enough to spend their lives constructing a tomb for some ambitious booby, whom it would have been wiser and manlier to have drowned in the Nile, and then given his body to the dogs. |
As if there were safety in stupidity alone |
As if there were safety in stupidity alone |
As if you could kill time without injuring eternity |
As to conforming outwardly, and living your own life inwardly, I have not a very high opinion of that course. |
As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness. |
Associate reverently, and as much as one can with our loftiest thoughts |
Associate reverently, as much as you can, with your loftiest thoughts. |
Be not simply good; be good for something. |
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend. |
Behave so the aroma of your actions may enhance the general sweetness of the atmosphere. |
Being is the great explainer. |
Between whom there is hearty truth, there is love. |
Beware of all enterprises that require a new set of clothes. |
Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes. |