It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
From Robert Louis Stevenson
Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.
There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.
Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.
To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
Every man has a sane spot somewhere.
Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.
The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.
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