In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
We may become the makers of our fate when we have ceased to pose as its prophets.
If we learn for each success, and each failure, and improve ourselves through this process, then, at the end, we will havefulfilled our potential and performed well.
The virtues, like the Muses, are always seen in groups. A good principle was never found solitary in any breast.
People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf.
Enhance and intensify one's vision of that synthesis of truth and beauty which is the highest and deepest reality.
In ecology, as in economics, TANSTAAFL(There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch) is intended to warn that every gain is won at some cost. Failure to recognize the 'no free lunch' law causes the buffalo hunter mentality syndrome the unthinking assumption that there will always be plenty because there always has been plenty.
What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.
Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.
For, when with beauty we can virtue join, We paint the semblance of a form divine.
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
God is a reality of spirit...He cannot...be conceived as an object, not even as the very highest object. God is not to be found in the world of objects.
The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.
When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.
Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.
It is only necessary to make war with five things: with the maladies of the body, with the ignorances of the mind, with the passions of the body, with the seditions of the city, with the discords of families.
Be always displeased at what thou art, if thou desire to attain to what thou art not; for where thou hast pleased thyself, there thou abidest.
Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.
Whether talking about addiction, taxation [on cigarettes] or education [about smoking], there is always at the center of the conversation an essential conundrum: How come we?re selling this deadly stuff anyway?
Do you think that you shall enter the Garden of Bliss without such trials as came to those who passed before you?
Life, as the most ancient of all metaphors insists, is a journey; and the travel book, in its deceptive simulation of the journey?s fits and starts, rehearses life?s own fragmentation. More even than the novel, it embraces the contingency of things.
If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I?And if not now, when?
Without health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering - an image of death.
Remember if you marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance, will neither last nor please thee one year: and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all.
You see many stars at night in the sky but find them not when the sun rises; can you say that there are no stars in the heaven of day? So, O man! because you behold not God in the days of your ignorance, say not that there is no God.
He that fights and runs away, May turn and fight another day; But he that is in battle slain, Will never rise to fight again.
Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.
A piece of advice always contains an implicit threat, just as a threat always contains an implicit piece of advice.
What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell of a laugh!
One lives with so many bad deeds on one's conscience and some good intentions in one's heart.
For when the One Great Scorer comes To write against your name, He marks - not that you won or lost - But how you played the game.
Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events.