He who experiences the unity of life sees his own Self in all beings, and all beings in his own Self, and looks on everything with an impartial eye.
Men are so constituted that everybody undertakes what he sees another successful in, whether he has aptitude for it or not.
I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator.
What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.
Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.
Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.
The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.
Beware of dissipating your powers; strive constantly to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but it is sure to repent every ill-judged outlay.
For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.
It is equally a mistake to hold one's self too high, or to rate one's self too cheap.
Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral with rhythms of progress and retrogression, of evolution and dissolution.
Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.
Devote each day to the object then in time and every evening will find something done.
It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.
Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it. Others do just the same with their time.
Aromatic plants bestow no spicy fragrance while they grow; but crush'd or trodden to the ground, diffuse their balmy sweets around.
How blest is he who crowns, in shades like these, A youth of labor with an age of ease.
Hope, like the gleaming taper's light, adorns and cheers our way; and still, as darker grows the night, emits a brighter ray.
The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition.
Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists.... When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.
Truth cannot be defined or tested by agreement with ?the world?; for not only do truths differ for different worlds but the nature of agreement between a world apart from it is notoriously nebulous.
Truth cannot be defined or tested by agreement with ?the world?; for not only do truths differ for different worlds but the nature of agreement between a world apart from it is notoriously nebulous.
It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.... This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our everyman must take on a science fictional way of thinking.
There is no one on earth more disgusting and repulsive than he who gives alms. Even as there is no one so miserable as he who accepts them.
Nothing arouses ambition so much in the heart as the trumpet-clang of another's fame.
Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art.
Watchfulness is the only guard against cunning. Be intent on his intentions. Many succeed in making others do their own affairs, and unless you possess the key to their motives you may at any moment be forced to take their chestnuts out of the fire to the damage of your own fingers.
I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers. What I said was that all saloonkeepers are Democrats.
The darkest hour in any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.