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You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs.
The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.
A friend is a person who goes around saying nice things about you behind your back.
I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I'm not afraid of falling into my inkpot.
I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
Live in the fields, and God will give you lectures on natural philosophy every day.
The god of Victory is said to be one-handed, but Peace gives victory to both sides.
Sculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry.
There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into power.
The efforts which we make to escape from our destiny only serve to lead us into it.
The blazing evidence of immortality is our dissatisfaction with any other solution.
Every man is a borrower and a mimic, life is theatrical and literature a quotation.
Prayer that craves a particular commodity, anything less than all good, is vicious.
We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases.
The book written against fame and learning has the author's name on the title-page.
As there is a use in medicine for poisons, so the world cannot move without rogues.
Let us not forget the genial miraculous force we have known to proceed from a book.
The mind does not create what it perceives, any more than the eye creates the rose.
None believeth in the soul of man, but only in some man or person old and departed.
Astrology is astronomy brought down to Earth and applied toward the affairs of men.
All public facts are to be individualized, all private facts are to be generalized.
The only money of God is God. He pays never with any thing less, or any thing else.
Play out the game, act well your part, and if the gods have blundered, we will not.
Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
Everlasting farewells! and again, and yet again reverberated everlasting farewells!
The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity.
There are four kinds of people in this world: cretins, fools, morons, and lunatics.
I am an old consumer of papers. I cannot avoid reading my newspapers every morning.
Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.
Letter-writing on the part of a busy man or woman is the quintessence of generosity.
Now is the time of the illuminated woods ... when every leaf glows like a tiny lamp.
To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.
The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.
When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.
The gloomy months of November, when the people of England hang and drown themselves.
I should think myself a very bad woman, if I had done what I do for a farthing less.
Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, Fades in his eye, and palls upon the sense.
Great souls by instinct to each other turn, demand alliance, and in friendship burn.
Men naturally warm and heady are transported with the greatest flush of good-nature.
To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving.
As long as people have been making little people, they've wanted to know how not to.
Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief in denying them.
Condense some daily experience into a glowing symbol and an audience is electrified.
A man's fortunes are the fruit of his character. A man's friends are his magnetisms.
Knowledge is the antidote to fear,- Knowledge, Use and Reason, with its higher aids.
The true scholar grudges every opportunity of action passed, by, as a loss of power.
Allow yourself to trust joy and embrace it. You will find you dance with everything.
What would be the use of immortality to a person who cannot use well a half an hour?
We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more.