Everything Quotes

Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.

There is nothing holier in this life of ours than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings.

The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.

The human voice is the organ of the soul.

Resolve and thou art free.

Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies. By dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed To have a passer-by kill the snake for the beads.

If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.

A thought often makes us hotter than a fire.

In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.

The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.

Music is the universal language of mankind.

Into each life some rain must fall.

A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.

It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.

If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.

The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.

Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.

Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.

The dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless; love is eternal.

That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.

Love gives itself; it is not bought.

The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.

Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor's nose.

Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.

Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.

Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

Sometimes we may learn more from a man's errors, than from his virtues.

Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author.

Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.

The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.

Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.

In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.

A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.

There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.

They who go Feel not the pain of parting; it is they Who stay behind that suffer.

Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.

All things must change to something new, to something strange.

Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall.

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.

The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.

I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighborhood of man, and enjoy the sweet security of the streets.

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.

Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.

The nearer the dawn the darker the night.

Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak.

Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.

For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.

He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.

The Helicon of too many poets is not a hill crowned with sunshine and visited by the Muses and the Graces, but an old, mouldering house, full of gloom and haunted by ghosts.