“To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.”
Life“If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.”
Music“To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.”
Life“There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.”
Nature“Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.”
Best“Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.”
Nature“I have seen how the foundations of the world are laid, and I have not the least doubt that it will stand a good while.”
Good“I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.”
Life“The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.”
Faith“There is no remedy for love but to love more.”
Love“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“I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.”
Business“There are old heads in the world who cannot help me by their example or advice to live worthily and satisfactorily to myself but I believe that it is in my power to elevate myself this very hour above the common level of my life.”
Life“I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.”
Alone“Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.”
Religion“Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.”
Faith“All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.”
Family“Be not simply good - be good for something.”
Good“The law will never make a man free it is men who have got to make the law free.”
Men“Faith never makes a confession.”
Faith“It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.”
Nature“A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.”
Friendship