Can anybody remember when the times were not hard and money not scarce?
Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.
Earth laughs in flowers.
Art is a jealous mistress; and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.
Nobody trips over mountains. It is the small pebble that causes you to stumble. Pass all the pebbles in your path and you will find you have crossed the mountain. The mind does not create what it perceives, anymore than the eye creates the rose.
In good writing, words become one with things.
The wonder is that we can see these trees and not wonder more.
Ten percent of people can think, another ten percent of people think that they think, and eighty percent of people would rather die than be made to think.
We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.
Do you want to be a power in the world? Then be yourself. Be true to the highest within your soul and then allow yourself to be governed by no customs or conventionaliti es or arbitrary man-made rules that are not founded on principle.
The selfish man suffers more from his selfishness than he from whom that selfishness withholds some important benefit.
Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.
there is no planet, sun, or star could hold you if you but knew what you are.
With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.
Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.
Nature never hurries: atom by atom, little by little, she achieves her work. The lesson one learns from yachting or planting is the manners of Nature; patience with the delays of wind and sun, delays of the seasons, bad weather, excess or lack of water.
No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
Every man is a divinity in disguise, a god playing the fool.
When I go into the garden with a spade and dig a bed I feel such an exhilaration and health that I discover that I have been defrauding myself all this time in letting others do for me what I should have done with my own hands.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
Life will show you masks that are worth all your carnivals
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.
All is a riddle, and the key to a riddle...is another riddle.
The secret in education lies in respecting the student.
I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the stern fact, the sad self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.
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