What lies behind us and lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us.
Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
He who is on Love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues it possesses.
Who you are speaks so loudly, I can't hear what you're saying.
All that I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all that I have not seen.
Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind.
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong. (on Abraham Lincoln)
Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist.
Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it. The man who knows how will always have a job. The man who also knows why will always be his boss. As to methods there may be a million and then some, but principles are few. The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods. The man who tries methods, ignoring principles, is sure to have trouble.
To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. The wise instructor accomplishes this by opening to his pupils precisely the attractions the study has for himself. The marking is a system for schools, not for the college; for boys, not for men; and it is an ungracious work to put on a professor.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us.
Congratulate yourself if you've done something strange and extravagant, and broken the monotony of a decorous age.
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
There is nothing capricious in nature, and the implanting of a desire indicates that it's gratification is in the constitution of the creature that feels it.
Life is good only when it is magical and musical. A perfect timing and consent and when we do not anatomize it. You must hear the bird song without attempting to render it into nouns and verbs.
The ancestor of every action is a thought.
To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men-that is genius.
It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
Last Updated on 27 January, 1997