SamponTo be adult is to be alone. There's something contagious about demanding freedom. A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.
To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days.
The thought of our past years in me doth breed perpetual benedictions. A big man has no time really to do anything but just sit and be big.
It is only the superficial qualities that last. Man's deeper nature is soon found out.
Happiness and virtue rest upon each other the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.
Mutual aid is as much a law of animal life as mutual struggle.
Having leveled my palace, don't erect a hovel and complacently admire your own charity in giving me that for a home.
Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?
Peace is liberty in tranquillity.
The gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present.
In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.
To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight to the blood. It is bad advice that cannot be changed.
Green how I want you green. Green wind. Green branches.
What monster have we here? A great Deed at this hour of day? A great just deed -- and not for pay? Absurd -- or insincere?
