It is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks.
I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music.
Upon my word, I think the truth is the hardest missile one can be pelted with.
Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.
No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.
Don't judge a book by its cover
Ignorance is not so damnable as humbug, but when it prescribes pills it may happen to do more harm.
In high vengeance there is noble scorn.
There is hardly any mental misery worse than that of having our own serious phrases, our own rooted beliefs, caricatured by a charlatan or a hireling.
The intensest form of hatred is that rooted in fear.
What is opportunity to the man who can't use it? An unfecundated egg, which the waves of time wash away into nonentity.
What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.
The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.
It is one thing to see your road, another to cut it.
No man can be wise on an empty stomach.
There are many victories worse than a defeat.
Net the large fish and you are sure to have the small fry.
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
there are two ways of speaking an audience will always like: one is, to tell them what they don't understand; and the other is, to tell them what they're used to.
What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?
Genius ... is necessarily intolerant of fetters.
After all, the true seeing is within.
Men can do nothing without the make-believe of a beginning.
More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.
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