924 quotes found
“Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function.”
“The only reward of virtue is virtue.”
“When there is no vision people perish.”
“Sleep takes off the costume of circumstance arms us with terrible freedom so that every will rushes to deed. A skillful man reads his dreams for his self-knowledge yet not the details but the q...”
“By the rude bridge that arched the flood Their flag to April's breeze unfurl'd Here once the embattl'd farmers stood And fired the shot heard round the world.”
“A wise man always throws himself on the side of his assailants. It is more his interests than it is theirs to find his weak point.”
“A woman's strength is the irresistible might of weakness.”
“Every artist was first an amateur.”
“Men love to wonder and that is the seed of our science.”
“It is the privilege of any human work which is well done to invest the doer with a certain haughtiness. He can well afford not to conciliate whose faithful work will answer for him.”
“Good-bye proud world! I'm going home Thou are not my friend I am not thine.”
“What torments of grief you endured from evils that never arrived.”
“Some of your hurts you have cured And the sharpest you still have survived But what torments of grief you endured From the evil which never arrived.”
“And what greater calamity can fall upon a nation than the loss of worship.”
“We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates.”
“To finish the moment to find the journey's end in every step of the road to live the greatest number of good hours is wisdom.”
“Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book.”
“It makes a great difference in the force of a sentence whether a man be behind it or no.”
“We go to Europe to be Americanized.”
“It is a happy talent to know how to play.”
