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I can find my biography in every fable that I read.

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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 ...more

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No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this.

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Tobacco, coffee, alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine, are weak dilutions. The surest poison is time.

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Thought and knowledge are natures in which apparatus and pretension avail nothing. Gowns, and pecuniary foundations, though of towns of gold, can neve...more

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Ralph Waldo Emerson“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”― Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

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In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calami...more

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Tis the good reader that makes the good book; in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakenly m...more

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Your goodness must have some edge to it -- else it is none.

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There is a property in the horizon which no man has but he whose eye can integrate all parts, that is, the poet.

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The selfish man suffers more from his selfishness than he from whom that selfishness withholds some important benefit.

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Love what is simple and beautiful. These are the essentials.