Everything Quotes

Those whom we can love, we can hate; to others we are indifferent.

Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.

The heart is forever inexperienced.

The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right.

I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.

Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.

Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing.

We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.

We are eager to tunnel under the Atlantic and bring the Old World some weeks nearer to the New, but perchance the first news that will leak through into the broad, flapping American ear will be that the Princess Adelaide has the whooping cough.

I was more independent than any farmer in Concord, for I was not anchored to a house or farm, but could follow the bent of my genius, which is a very crooked one, every moment.

I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartanlike as to put to rout all that was not life.

Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.

Is the babe young? When I behold it, it seems more venerable than the oldest man.

I have found that hollow, which even I had relied on for solid.

Justice is sweet and musical; but injustice is harsh and discordant.

Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things.

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.

Faith never makes a confession.

It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.

Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.

In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society.

To be awake is to be alive.

What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.

To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.

Every people have gods to suit their circumstances.

That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.

I have been as sincere a worshipper of Aurora as the Greeks.

In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high.

What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

I have a great deal of company in the house, especially in the morning when nobody calls.

It is never too late to give up our prejudices.

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.

While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created palaces, but it was not so easy to create noblemen and kings.

There never was and is not likely soon to be a nation of philosophers, nor am I certain it is desirable that there should be.

It is the greatest of all advantages to enjoy no advantage at all.

If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated?

It is too late to be studying Hebrew; it is more important to understand even the slang of today.

Alas! how little does the memory of these human inhabitants enhance the beauty of the landscape!

Only that day dawns to which we are awake.

They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.

Our moments of inspiration are not lost though we have no particular poem to show for them; for those experiences have left an indelible impression, and we are ever and anon reminded of them.

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.

All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.