924 quotes found
“In the morning a man walks with his whole body in the evening only with his legs.”
“Out of sleeping a waking Out of waking a sleep.”
“It has come to be practically a sort of rule in literature that a man having once shown himself capable of original writing is entitled thenceforth to steal from the writings of others at discretion.”
“Shallow men believe in luck wise and strong men in cause and effect.”
“Work and acquire and thou hast chained the wheel of Chance.”
“Is not marriage an open question when it is alleged from the beginning of the world that such as are in the institution wish to get out and such as are out wish to get in.”
“Shall we judge a country by the majority or by the minority? By the minority surely.”
“Poverty Frost Famine Rain Disease are the beadles and guardsmen that hold us to Common Sense.”
“Nature is reckless of the individual. When she has points to carry she carries them”
“Nature is too thin a screen the glory of the omnipresent God bursts through everywhere.”
“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could some blunders and absurdities have crept in forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day you shall begin it serenely and w...”
“Our greatest glory consists not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.”
“My evening visitors if they cannot see the clock should find the time in my face.”
“The difference between landscape and landscape is small but there's a great difference in the beholders.”
“He is only rich who owns the day. There is no king rich man fairy or demon who possesses such power as that.”
“To fill the hour that is happiness to fill the hour and leave no crevice for a repentance or an approval.”
“There are three wants which can never be satisfied: that of the rich who want something more that of the sick who want something different and that of the traveler who says "Anywhere but here."”
“Men run away to other countries because they are not good in their own and run back to their own because they pass for nothing in the new places.”
“Fear is an instructor of great sagacity and the herald of all revolutions.”
“The power which resides in man is new in nature and none but he knows what that is which he can do nor does he until he has tried.”
