A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.
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The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
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Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.
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Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
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Life is a series of surprises and would not be worth taking or keeping if it were not.
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There is creative reading as well as creative writing.
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Bare lists of words are found suggestive to an imaginative and excited mind.
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Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up
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To laugh often and much,to win the respect of the intelligent peopleand the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest criticsand endur...
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My life should be unique; it should be an alms, a battle, a conquest, a medicine.
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Good is positive. Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of heat. All evil is so much death or nonentity. Ben...
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Out of sleeping a waking Out of waking a sleep.
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Your actions speak so loudly, I cannot hear what you are saying.
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a man only knows what he's experienced
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The whole of what we know is a system of compensations. Each suffering is rewarded each sacrifice is made up every debt is paid.
