You're an actor, are you? Well, all that means is: you are irresponsible, irrational, romantic, and incapable of handling an adult emotion or a universal concept without first reducing it to something personal, material, sensational
Of all men's miseries the bitterest is this: to know so much and to have control over nothing.
This man is freed from servile bands, Of hope to rise, or fear to fall; Lord of himself, though not of lands, And leaving nothing, yet hath all.
All human discoveries seem to be made only for the purpose of confirming more and more strongly the truths that come from on high and are contained in the sacred writings.
History seems to us an arena of instincts and fashions, of appetite, avarice, and craving for power, of blood lust, violence, destruction, and wars, of ambitious ministers, venal generals, bombarded cities, and we too easily forget that this is only one of its many aspects.
That's what learning is, after all; not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we've changed because of it and what we take away from it that we never had before, to apply to other games. Losing, in a curious way, is winning.
The high-spirited man may indeed die, but he will not stoop to meanness. Fire, though it may be quenched, will not become cool.
The tempest uproots not the soft grasses that bow low on all sides; on the lofty trees it strikes hard. It is against the mighty that the mighty puts forth his prowess.
Let this be an example for the acquisition of all knowledge,virtue, and riches. By the fall of drops of water, by degrees, a pot is filled.
From covetousness anger proceeds; from covetousness lust is born; from covetousness come delusion and perdition. Covetousness is the cause of sin.
That which corrodes the souls of the persecuted is the monstrous inner agreement with the prevailing prejudice against them.
It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.
You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future. Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophesies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.
I share the belief of many of my contemporaries that the spiritual crisis pervading all spheres of Western industrial society can be remedied only by a change in our world view. We shall have to shift from the materialistic, dualistic belief that people and their environment are separate, toward a new consciousness of an all reality, which embraces the experiencing ego, a reality in which people feel their oneness with animate nature and all of creation.
There is no great achievement that is not the result of patient working and waiting.
The advice of their elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.
Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing.
To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.
Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.
Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall; a mother's secret hope outlives them all!
Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water-bath is to the body.
The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors.
All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called "Facts". They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain.
Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day, like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.
A woman never forgets her sex. She would rather talk with a man than an angel, any day.
I await the hour when a journalist can be driven from the press room for venal practices, as a minister can be unfrocked, or a lawyer disbarred.
Hateful to me as are the gates of hell, Is he who, hiding one thing in his heart, Utters another.
There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.