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A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist.
Good bye, proud world! I'm going home; Thou art not my friend, and I'm not thine
Come out of the azure. Love the day. Do not leave the sky out of your landscape.
Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
Every genuine work of art has as much reason for being as the earth and the sun.
Society has really no graver interest than the well-being of the literary class.
The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.
When a natural king becomes a titular king, every body is pleased and satisfied.
The brevity of human life gives a melancholy to the profession of the architect.
The poorest experience is rich enough for all the purposes of expressing thought
That which we do not call education is more precious than that which we call so.
Let not the author eat up the man, so that he shall be all balcony and no house.
Enthusiasm is the height of man; it is the passing from the human to the divine.
The soul answers never by words, but by the thing itself that is inquired after.
Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins
Circles, like the soul, are neverending and turn round and round without a stop.
Drudgery, calamity, exasperation, want, are instructors in eloquence and wisdom.
Improve your spare moments and they will become the brightest gems in your life.
An answer in words is delusive; it is really no answer to the questions you ask.
The test of civilization is the power of drawing the most benefit out of cities.
When a happy person comes into the room, it is as if another candle has been lit.
The imaginative faculty of the soul must be fed with objects immense and eternal.
It is a capital blunder; as you discover, when another man recites his charities.
Five great enemies of peace inhabit us: avarice, ambition, envy, anger and pride.
The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.
This book of Montaigne the world has endorsed by translating it into all tongues.
I grieve that grief can teach me nothing, nor carry me one step into real nature.
All the tools and engines on earth are only extensions of man's limbs and senses.
Nature has made up her mind that what cannot defend itself shall not be defended.
My life should be unique; it should be an alms, a battle, a conquest, a medicine.
They have seen but half the universe who never have been shown the house of pain.
Let him go where he will, he can only find so much beauty or worth as he carries.
Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.
This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.
Men wish to be saved from the mischiefs of their vices, but not from their vices.
Wouldst thou shut up the avenues of ill, Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill.
When believers and unbelievers live in the same manner - I distrust the religion.
Great men or men of great gifts you shall easily find, but symmetrical men never.
Law rules throughout existence, a Law which is not intelligent, but Intelligence.
I read your piece on Plato. Holmes, when you strike at a king, you must kill him.
This valley is the only place that comes up to the brag about it, and exceeds it.
Of cheerfulness, or a good temper - the more it is spent, the more of it remains.
Freedom is not the right to do as you please, but the liberty to do as you should.
The work of vegetation begins first in the irritability of the bark and leaf-buds.
We resent all criticism which denies us anything that lies in our line of advance.
The believing we do something when we do nothing is the first illusion of tobacco.
No man can be criticised but by a greater than he. Do not, then, read the reviews.
People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.
Experience is the only teacher, and we get his lesson indifferently in any school.
The chief value of the new fact is to enhance the great and constant fact of life.