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Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt.
One is also reminded of how, in art, the tortoise so often overtakes the hare.
"Little magazines" are, for the most part, the mayflies of the literary world.
We can outrun the wind and the storm, but we cannot outrun the demon of hurry.
There is nothing which strengthens faith more than the observance of morality.
Good-breeding shows itself most where to an ordinary eye it appears the least.
I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.
Gandhi's ideas were rooted in a wide experience of a freshly globalized world.
A book doesn't have to be a literary classic, of course, to change us forever.
Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine.
In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.
A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.
For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.
Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?
There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.
The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
The way to write is to throw your body at the mark when your arrows are spent.
Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.
Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.
He is great who is what he is from nature, and who never reminds us of others.
We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.
By persisting in your path, though you forfeit the little, you gain the great.
I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.
Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success.
What a searching preacher of self-command is the varying phenomenon of health.
We walk alone in the world. Friends, such as we desire, are dreams and fables.
If the vast and the spiritual are omitted, so are the practical and the moral.
Is there a difference? Yes. We are in harmony with nature, but never at peace.
Harmony of aim, not identity of conclusion, is the secret of sympathetic life.
Want is a growing giant whom the coat of have was never large enough to cover.
Preaching is the expression of moral sentiments applied to the duties of life.
Washington, where an insignificant individual may trespass on a nation's time.
Most of the great results of history are brought about by discreditable means.
Yet these uneasy pleasures and fine pains are for curiosity, and not for life.
A good symbol is the best argument, and is a missionary to persuade thousands.
[D]ivine Providence... keeps the universe open in every direction to the soul.
The advantage of riches remains with him who procured them, not with the heir.
Reserve is the truest expression of respect towards those who are its objects.
Libraries have always been humanities' way of preserving its collective wisdom
By means of the sign, man frees himself from the here and now for abstraction.
To have given pleasure to one human being is a recollection that sweetens life.
The actor doesn't merely command the stage, he seems to own it by divine right.
The naturist must see all things in the light of his experiences in this world.
I shall endeavor to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality.
Tis heaven itself, that points out an hereafter, and intimates eternity to man.
Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter.
There is much to be said for failure. It is much more interesting than success.
To step away from the world isn't to draw back; it's actually a way to tune in.
We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next to find ourselves.
The more ways we have to connect, the more many of us seem desperate to unplug.