A man protesting against error is on the way towards uniting himself with all men that believe in truth.
Only the person of worth can recognize the worth in others.
If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.
The first purpose of clothes... was not warmth or decency, but ornament.... Among wild people, we find tattooing and painting even prior to clothes. The first spiritual want of a barbarous man is decoration; as indeed we still see among the barbarous classes in civilized countries.
The times are very bad. Very well, you are there to make them better.
Dishonesty is the raw material not of quacks only, but also in great part dupes.
Silence is more eloquent than words.
A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
Do nothing, only keep agitating, debating; and things will destroy themselves.
Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.
Work earnestly at anything, you will by degrees learn to work at all things.
Why tell me that a man is a fine speaker, if it is not the truth that he is speaking?
Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil; for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it.
It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.
There is so much data available to us, but most data won't help us succeed.
Stop a moment, cease your work, and look around you.
Speech is silver, silence is golden.
Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstance. It is character which builds an existence out of circumstance. From the same materials one man builds palaces, another hovels; one warehouses, another villas; bricks and mortar are mortar and bricks until the architect can make them something else.
Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.
Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.
They only are wise who know that they know nothing.
Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.
The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.
You can make even a parrot into a learned political economist - all he must learn are the two words "supply" and "demand."
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