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When you strike at a king you must kill him. Ralph Waldo Emerson The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it. Ralph Waldo Emerson He is great who is what he is from Nature, and who never reminds us of others. Ralph Waldo Emerson When nature removes a great man, people explore the horizon for a successor; but none comes, and none will. His class is extinguished with him. In some other and quite different field, the next man will appear. Ralph Waldo Emerson A man may Love a paradox without either losing his wit or his honesty. Ralph Waldo Emerson The highest compact we can make with our fellow is - "Let there be truth between us two forevermore." Ralph Waldo Emerson Hitch your wagon to a star. Ralph Waldo Emerson We boil at different degrees. Ralph Waldo Emerson Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. Ralph Waldo Emerson I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being perfectly well-dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which religion is powerless to bestow. Ralph Waldo Emerson Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world. Ralph Waldo Emerson Give a girl the right shoes, and she can conquer the world. Marilyn Monroe Ever notice how 'What the hell' is always the right answer? Marilyn Monroe I think the necessity of being ready increases. Look to it. Abraham Lincoln: Letter (this is the whole message) to Gov Andrew G. Curtin of Penna. (April 18, 1861) It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels he is worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him. Abraham Lincoln The President last night had a dream. He was in the party of plain people as it became known who he was they began to comment on his appearance. One of them said, "He is a common-looking man." The President replied, "Common-looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them." Abraham Lincoln: from letters of John Hays & Extracts from his Diary If you forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. It is true that you may fool all the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all the time; but you can't fool all of the people all the time. Abraham Lincoln If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference. Abraham Lincoln All that we see or seem Is but a dream within a dream. Edgar Allan Poe Don't cross the bridge till you come to it, Is a proverb old, and of excellent wit. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts. Charles Robert Darwin I love fool's experiments. I am always making them. Charles Robert Darwin There was a little girl Who had a little cirl Right in the middle of her forehead; And when she was good She was very, very good, But when she was bad she was horrid. "There was a Little Girl" by H.W. Longfellow Man scans with scrupulous care the character and pedigree of his horses, cattle, and dogs before he matches them; but when he comes to his own marriage he rarely, or never, takes any such care. Charles Robert Darwin It is no good to blame the looking glass if your face is awry. Nikolai Gogol Learn the sweet magic of a cheerful face; Not always smiling, but at least serene. Oliver Wendell Holmes Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtaxed. Oliver Wendell Holmes Man has his will - but woman has her way. Oliver Wendell Holmes Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned. Oliver Wendell Holmes Living well is the best revenge. George Herbert (1593 - 1633) English clergyman & metaphysical poet Every mile is two in winter. George Herbert Storms make oaks take deeper root. George Herbert You must lose a fly to catch a trout. George Herbert Skill and confidence are an unconquered army. George Herbert He who cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself. George Herbert Never cut what you can untie Joseph Joubert (1754-1824) Children need models rather than critics. Joseph Joubert Whenever there is a heart and an intellect, the diseases of the physical frame are tinged with the peculiarities of these. Nathaniel Hawthorne - Scarlet Letter Among the many morals which press upon us from the poor minister's miserable experience, we put only this into a sentence: "Be True! Be True! Show freely to the world, if not your worst, yet some trait whereby the worst may be inferred." Nathaniel Hawthorne - Scarlet Letter The greatest mortal consolation which we derive from the transitoriness of all things - from the right of saying, in every conjuncture, "This, too, will pass away." Nathaniel Hawthorne- The Marble Faun Silence is the sovereign contempt. Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve The sin forgiven by Christ in Heaven By man is cursed away. Nathaniel Parker Willis The best university that can be recommended to a man of ideas is the gauntlet of the mobs. Ralph Waldo Emerson 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. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy. Ralph Waldo Emerson Do not say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary. Ralph Waldo Emerson More people are flattered into virtue than bullied out of vice. Robert Smith Surtees What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens. Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield Everything comes if a man will only wait. Benjamin Disraeli "My idea of an agreeable person," said Hugo Bohun "is a person who agrees with me." Benjamin Disraeli The secret of success is constancy to purpose. Benjamin Disraeli "As for that," said Waldershare, "sensible men are all the same religion." "And pray, what is that?" inquired the prince. "Sensible men never tell." Benjamin Disraeli Discontent is the want of self-reliance: it is infirmity of will. Ralph Waldo Emerson Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Ralph Waldo Emerson A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him, I may think aloud. Ralph Waldo Emerson The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one. Ralph Waldo Emerson I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them. Ralph Waldo Emerson In skating over thin ice our safety is our speed. Ralph Waldo Emerson Every man is wanted, and no man is wanted much. Ralph Waldo Emerson Every hero becomes a bore at last. Ralph Waldo Emerson Coal is a portable climate. Ralph Waldo Emerson Make yourself necessary to somebody. Ralph Waldo Emerson Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait. Ralph Waldo Emerson To rise at six, to dine at ten, To sup at six, to sleep at ten, Makes a man live for ten times ten. Inscription over the door of Victor Hugo's study The anchor heaves, the ship swings free, The sails swell full. To sea, to sea! Thomas Lovell Beddoes The easiest person to deceive is one's own self. Edward Bulwer-Lytton I think no virtue goes with size. Ralph Waldo Emerson To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven. Ralph Waldo Emerson It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. Ralph Waldo Emerson A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds adored by little statesmen amd philosophers and divines. Ralph Waldo Emerson To be great is to be misunderstood. Ralph Waldo Emerson Habits are at first cobwebs, then cables. Spanish Proverb But evil is wrought by want of thought, As well as want of heart. Thomas Hood The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons. Ralph Waldo Emerson The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it. Thomas Babington, Lord Macaulay Damn the torpedoes - full speed ahead! David Glasgow Farragut Who lets his feelings run In soft luxurious flow, Shrinks when hard service must be done, And faints at every woe. John Henry, Cardinal Newman A great memory does not make a philosopher, any more than a dictionary can be called a grammar. John Henry, Cardinal Newman Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come. Victor Hugo Great blunders are often made, like large ropes, of a multitude of fibers. Victor Hugo If peace cannot be maintained with honor, it is no longer peace. Lord John Russell The good want power, but weep barren tears. The powerful goodness want: worse need for them. The wise want Love; and those who love want wisdom; And all best things are thus confused with ill. Percy Bysshe Shelley Prometheus Unbound The trumpet of a prophecy! O Wind, If winter comes, can spring be far behind? Percy Bysshe Shelley All greatness is unconscious, or it is little and naught. Thomas Carlyle No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad. Thomas Carlyle Man's unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite. Thomas Carlyle "Beauty is truth, truth beauty," - that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. John Keats Ordinarily he is insane, but he has lucid moments when he is only stupid. Heinrich Heine Sorrows remembered sweeten present joy. Robert Pollok |