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The lower one's vitality, the more sensitive one is to great art.
What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.
Nature is no spendthrift, but takes the shortest way to her ends.
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
Men talk as if victory were something fortunate. Work is victory.
I think we must get rid of slavery or we must get rid of freedom.
Only a biker knows why a dog sticks his head out of a car window.
The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast.
The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain.
We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.
The power men possess to annoy me I give them by a weak curiosity
The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most.
You cannot sincerely try to help another without helping yourself
The essence of greatness is the perception that virtue is enough.
Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.
The man (or woman) who can make hard things easy is the educator.
When we have arrived at the question, the answer is already near.
What torments of grief you endured, from evils that never arrived
There are always two parties; the establishment and the movement.
The disease with which the human mind now labors is want of faith
We prize books, and they prize them most who are themselves wise.
Difference of opinion is the one crime which kings never forgive.
We sell the thrones of angels for a short and turbulent pleasure.
The power of love, as the basis of a State, has never been tried.
Perpetual modernism is the measure of merit in every work of art.
Add energy, inspire hope, and blow the coals into a useful flame.
To aim to convert a man by miracles is a profanation of the soul.
Money often costs too much, and power and pleasure are not cheap.
We say the cows laid out Boston. Well, there are worse surveyors.
The goof man, in dealing with his people, taxes them with luxury.
The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed.
Out from the heart of Nature rolled The burdens of the Bible old.
Within, I do not find wrinkles and used heart, but unspent youth.
You need not fear to handle the truth roughly. She is no invalid.
When you are on the dancefloor, there is nothing to do but dance.
If people buy my books for vanity, I consider it a tax on idiocy.
I wish to be a cat. I like to imagine I was a cat in a past life.
Traveling is, and has always been, more popular than the traveler.
The vanity of man revolts from the serene indifference of the cat.
Innovations to which we are not committed are illuminating things.
There will be strange ebbs and flows in the tide of race feelings.
Anything But An Apologist for the Lefties and All of Their Causes.
There is not a more pleasante exercise of the mind than gratitude.
What can be nobler than the idea it gives us of the Supreme Being?
There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's head-dress.
History does not repeat itself. The historians repeat one another.
But to die of laughter--this, too, seems to me a great euthanasia.
Destinations are less important than the spirit you bring to them.
What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think.
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.