The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
Genius ... is necessarily intolerant of fetters.
It is one thing to see your road, another to cut it.
After all, the true seeing is within.
Net the large fish and you are sure to have the small fry.
Men can do nothing without the make-believe of a beginning.
Life was never anything but a perpetual see-saw between gravity and jest.
There are men whose presence infuses trust and reverence.
Somebody put a drop under a magnifying-glass and it was all semicolons and parentheses.
What a different result one gets by changing the metaphor!
All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.
It is necessary to me, not simply to be but to utter, and I require utterance of my friends.
A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.
Wit is a form of force that leaves the limbs at rest.
No man is matriculated to the art of life till he has been well tempted.
It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.
The great river-courses which have shaped the lives of men have hardly changed; and those other streams, the life-currents that ebb and flow in human hearts, pulsate to the same great needs, the same great loves and terrors. As our thought follows close in the slow wake of the dawn, we are impressed with the broad sameness of the human lot, which never alters in the main headings of its history--hunger and labour, seed-time and harvest, love and death.
It's never too late to be who you were meant to be.
It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.
The mind that is too ready at contempt and reprobation is, I may say, as a clenched fist that can give blows, but is shut up from receiving and holding ought that is precious.
We want people to feel with us more than to act for us.
Appearances have very little to do with happiness.
Our thoughts are often worse than we are.
No one who has ever known what it is to lose faith in a fellow-man whom he has profoundly loved and reverenced, will lightly say that the shock can leave the faith in the Invisible Goodness unshaken. With the sinking of high human trust, the dignity of life sinks too; we cease to believe in our own better self, since that also is part of the common nature which is degraded in our thought; and all the finer impulses of the soul are dulled.
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