Some people swallow the universe like a pill; they travel on through the world, like smiling images pushed from behind. |
Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health. |
Teacher, tender comrade, wife, A fellow-farer true through life |
Thanks, when they are expressed, are often more embarrassing than welcomed |
The best things in life are nearest: Breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of right just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life's plain, common work as it comes, certain that |
The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us. |
The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye |
The cruelest lies are often told in silence. |
The cruelest lies are often told in silence. |
The cruellest lies are often told in silence. A man may have sat in a room for hours and not opened his mouth, and yet come out of that room a disloyal friend or a vile calumniator. |
The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing. |
The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean |
The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish. |
The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish. |
The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish. |