The eyes indicate the antiquity of the soul.
People only see what they are prepared to see.
Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one’s self?
The peace of the man who has forsworn the use of the bullet seems to me not quite peace, but a canting impotence.
The secret of [...]
Every man is a borrower and a mimic; life is theatrical and literature a quotation.
If you shoot at a king you must kill him.
In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs.
The whole of what we know is a system of compensations. Each suffering is rewarded; each [...]
We fancy men are individuals; so are pumpkins; but every pumpkin in the field goes through every point of pumpkin history.
Whosoever would be a man must be a non-conformist.
The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.
Outside, among your fellows, among strangers, you must preserve appearances, 100 things you cannot do; [...]
I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
Take egotism out, and you would castrate the benefactor.
A great man stands on God. A small man stands on a great man.
Calmness is always Godlike.
A man finds room in a few square inches of his face [...]
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experience.
I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being well-dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility, which religion is powerless to bestow.
Whatever limits us we call Fate.
It is one of the blessings [...]
A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.
The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
A cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word.
The question is whether suicide is the way out, or the way in.
Proportion is almost impossible to human beings. There is no one who [...]
The days come and go like muffled and veiled figures sent from a distant friendly party, but they say nothing, and if we do not use the gifts they bring, they carry them as silently away.
Good breeding, a union of kindness and independence.
Character is that which can do without success.
Cities force growth and make men [...]
When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless.
Artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.
Perpetual modernness is the measure of merit in every work of art.
Beauty without expression tires.
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it [...]
Men achieve a certain greatness unawares, when working to another aim.
The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men round to his opinion 20 years later.
The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.
The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it.
Play out the [...]