Artists must be sacrificed to their art. |
As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey. |
As every man is hunted by his own daemon, vexed by his own disease, this checks all his activity. |
As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way. |
As long as our civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions |
As men's prayers are a disease of the will, so are their creeds a disease of the intellect |
As soon as a child has left the room his strewn toys become affecting. |
As soon as there is life, there is danger |
As the gardener, by severe pruning, forces the sap of the tree into one or two vigorous limbs, so should you stop off your miscellaneous activity and concentrate your force on one or a few points |
As the Sandwich-Islander believes that the strength and valor of the enemy he kills passes into himself, so we gain the strength of the temptations we resist |
As the traveler who has lost his way, throws his reins on his horse's neck, and trusts to the instinct of the animal to find his road, so must we do with the divine animal who carries us through this world |
As there is a use in medicine for poisons, so the world cannot move without rogues. |
As we grow old, the beauty steals inward. |
Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss. |
Be a little careful about your library. Do you foresee what you will do with it? Very little to be sure. But the real question is, What it will do with you? You will come here and get books that will open your eyes, and your ears, and your curiosity, and turn you inside out or outside in. |