If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut.
It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.
Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving in words evidence of the fact.
It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.
There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.
Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly.
It's strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so the lover must struggle for words.
Vacillating people seldom succeed. They seldom win the solid respect of their fellow men. Successful men and women are very careful in reaching decisions and very persistent and determined in action thereafter.
The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum.
Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times. They wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell, with necessities as hard as iron.
Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.
The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed, there is no winter and no night; all tragedies, allennuis,vanish, - all duties even.
We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases.
A beautiful form is better than a beautiful face; it gives a higher pleasure than statues or pictures; it is the finest of the fine arts.
This whole business of Trade gives me to pause and think, as it constitutes false relations between men; inasmuch as I am prone to count myself relieved of any responsibility to behave well and nobly to that person who I pay with money, whereas if I had not that commodity, I should be put on my good behavior in all companies, and man would be a benefactor to man, as being himself his only certificate that he had a right to those aids and services which each asked of the other.
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesman and philosophers and divines.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.
Every man finds a sanction for his simplest claims and deeds, in decisions of his own mind, which he calls Truth and Holiness.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.
A man finds room in the few square inches of his face for the traits of all his ancestors; for the expression of all his history, and his wants.
There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the imagination.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
All our progress is an unfolding, like the vegetable bud, you have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge, as the plant has root, bud and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.
To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men - that is genius.
To finish the moment, to find the journey?s end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom.
You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.