It is the quality of the moment, not the number of days, or events, or of actors, that imports.
From Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.
We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more.
Every spirit makes its house, and we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant.
The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.
The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.
Mysticism is the mistake of an accidental and individual symbol for an universal one.
The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
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