A friend in power is a friend lost. |
A man must now swallow more belief than he can digest. |
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell, where his influence stops. |
Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself |
Accident counts for much in companionship as in marriage |
All taxation is an evil, but heavy taxes, indiscriminately levied on every everything are one of the greatest curses that can afflict a people |
All taxation is an evil, but heavy taxes, indiscriminately levied on every everything are one of the greatest curses that can afflict a people |
American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it. |
As for America, it is the ideal fruit of all your youthful hopes and reforms. Everybody is fairly decent, respectable, domestic, bourgeois, middle-class, and tiresome. There is absolutely nothing to revile except that it's a bore. |
Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit |
Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit |
Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit |
Even in America, the Indian summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone - but never hustled |
Everyone carries his own inch-rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels |
Friends are born, not made. |