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Is the parent better than the child into whom he has cast his ripened being? Whence, then, this worship of the past?
The men who come on the stage at one period are all found to be related to each other. Certain ideas are in the air.
The smoothest curled courtier in the boudoirs of a palace has an animal nature, rude and aboriginal as a white bear.
I feel that there is no such thing as ultimate forgetting; traces once impressed upon the memory are indestructible.
There are four types: the cretin, the imbecile, the stupid and the mad. Normality is a balanced mixture of all four.
Writing doesn't mean necessarily putting words on a sheet of paper. You can write a chapter while walking or eating.
The choice of a topic which will bear analysis and support enthusiasm, is essential to the enjoyment of conversation.
It is impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.
A politician weakly and amiably in the right, is no match for a politician tenaciously and pugnaciously in the wrong.
Spanglish is a creative way also of saying, 'I am an American, and I have my own style, my own taste, my own tongue.'
A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying.
No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.
It is pleasant to see a notorious profligate seized with a concern for religion, and converting his spleen into zeal.
Tradition is an important help to history, but its statements should be carefully scrutinized before we rely on them.
When we are moved by art we are grateful that the artist lived, grateful that he labored in the service of his gifts.
As in the early 20th century, the elemental forces of globalisation have unravelled broad solidarities and loyalties.
There is a time when a man distinguishes the idea of felicity from the idea of wealth; it is the beginning of wisdom.
For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.
What care though rival cities soar Along the stormy coast, Penn's town, New York, Baltimore, If Boston knew the most!
Yet America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.
Human character evermore publishes itself. The most fugitive deed and word, the intimated purpose, express character.
If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him.
Remarkable trait in the American Character is the union, not very infrequent, of Yankee cleverness with spiritualism.
A mob cannot be a permanency: everybody's interest requires that it should not exist, and only justice satisfies all.
Yourself a newborn bard of the Holy Ghost, cast behind you all conformity, and acquaint men at first hand with Deity.
I am ready to die out of nature, and be born again into this new yet unapproachable America I have found in the West.
To the body and mind which have been cramped by noxious work or company, nature is medicinal and restores their tone.
We write from aspiration and antagonism, as well as from experience. We paint those qualities which we do not posses.
Mankind divides itself into two classes,--benefactors and malefactors. The second class is vast; the first a handful.
Classics which at home are drowsily read have a strange charm in a country inn, or in the transom of a merchant brig.
A more secret, sweet, and overpowering beauty appears to man when his heart and mind open to the sentiment of virtue.
If you interact with things in your life, everything is constantly changing. And if nothing changes, you're an idiot.
I suspect that there is no serious scholar who doesn’t like to watch television. I’m just the only one who confesses.
No man pursues what he has at hand. No man recognizes the need of pursuit until that which he desires has escaped him.
But wealth is a great means of refinement; and it is a security for gentleness, since it removes disturbing anxieties.
What a severe yet master artist old Winter is... No longer the canvas and the pigments, but the marble and the chisel.
You create your own audience, and your own community of peers, and in some ways you create your own forebears as well.
It is wonderful to see persons of sense passing away a dozen hours together in shuffling and dividing a pack of cards.
It is impossible for authors to discover beauties in one another's works; they have eyes only for spots and blemishes.
Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best. Genius must always have lapses proportionate to its triumphs.
Of course we all know that Morris was a wonderful all-round man, but the act of walking round him has always tired me.
Democracy presumes that we're all created equal; competition proves we are not, or else every race would end in a tie.
As the 19th century progressed, Europe's innovations, norms and categories came to achieve a truly universal hegemony.
Any school would gain, if the students began the day with meditation, cleared their heads and got themselves centered.
The exceptional life depends not on working harder, but on different, even opposite, actions from habit and the crowd.
The selfish man suffers more from his selfishness than he from whom that selfishness withholds some important benefit.
A deep man believes that the evil eye can whither, the heart's blessing can heal, and that love can overcome all odds.
There is a certain satisfaction in coming down to the lowest ground of politics, for we get rid of cant and hypocrisy.
Man was born to be rich, or to inevitably grow rich, by the use of his faculties: by the union of thought with nature.
If you believe in the soul, do not clutch at sensual sweetness before it is ripe on the slow tree of cause and effect.