We shall see but a little way if we require to understand what we see.
From Henry David Thoreau
What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.
Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.
The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.
All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.
It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.
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.
The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?
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.
Being is the great explainer.
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