Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.
A man in pursuit of greatness feels no little wants.
The visible heavens and earth sympathize with Jesus.
Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Keep cool: it will be all one a hundred years hence.
In nature nothing can be given. All things are sold.
A cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word.
The populace drags down the gods to their own level.
If you tax too high, the revenue will yield nothing.
The highest end of government is the culture of men.
You cannot institute, without peril of charlatanism.
We can only be valued as we make ourselves valuable.
Writing should be the settlement of dew on the leaf.
Every man is a channel through which heaven floweth.
The world is his who can see through its pretension.
I cannot forgive a scholar his homeless despondency.
So shall we come to look at the world with new eyes.
A man's action is only a poicture book of his creed.
A beautiful soul always dwells in a beautiful world.
I would study, I would know, I would admire forever.
Deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.
How much finer things are in composition than alone.
Fierce sectarianism breeds fierce latitudinarianism.
A novel is a machine for generating interpretations.
The poets did not win; the philosophers surrendered.
It is unwise to feel too much if we think too little.
Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.
History without politics descends to mere Literature.
Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.
To destroy is still the strongest instinct in nature.
You can't hold up a blog; you can hold up a magazine.
Freedom of speech doesn't guarantee great literature.
Places have charisma, in short, as much as people do.
Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up
If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.
One thing is forever good; That one thing is Success.
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions.
All life is a nap. The more naps you take the better.
There are some men above grief and some men below it.
Some books leave us free and some books make us free.
Poetry must be as new as foam and as old as the rock.
Life is March weather, savage and serene in one hour.
Each man has an aptitude born with him. Do your work.
Colleges hate geniuses, just as convents hate saints.
Drive out Nature with a fork, she comes running back.
We are always getting ready to live but never living.
Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished.
O Lord! Unhappy is the man whom man can make unhappy.
The forest is my loyal friend A Delphic shrine to me.
Walking has the best value as gymnastics of the mind.