“The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles.”
Best“I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.”
Business“The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles.”
Best“As in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover the causes of all past changes in the present invariable order of society.”
Society“A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.”
Life“I have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we mingle with the herd of common men.”
Death“Our life is frittered away by detail... simplify, simplify.”
Life“Dreams are the touchstones of our character.”
Dreams“Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask. She has long ago taken her resolution.”
Nature“Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good be good for something.”
Good“The perception of beauty is a moral test.”
Beauty“The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.”
Life“There is no remedy for love but to love more.”
Love“I have a great deal of company in the house, especially in the morning when nobody calls.”
Great“To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.”
Money“The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected.”
Nature“I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.”
Business“Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.”
Men“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.”
Men“There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.”
Alone“The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.”
Truth“Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.”
Love