Quotes 241 till 260 of 607.
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It does not need that a poem should be long. Every word was once a poem. Every new relationship is a new word.
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It is a happy talent to know how to play.
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It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to put trust in ideas, and not in circumstances.
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It is easy to live for others, everybody does. I call on you to live for yourselves.
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It is impossible for a man to be cheated by anyone but himself.
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It is not length of life, but depth of life.
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It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
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It is one of the most beautiful compensations in life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
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It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay.
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It is the privilege of any human work which is well done to invest the doer with a certain haughtiness. He can well afford not to conciliate, whose faithful work will answer for him.
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It is very easy in the world to live by the opinion of the world. It is very easy in solitude to be self-centered. But the finished man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
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It's the proof of high culture to say the greatest matters in the simplest way.
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Knowledge comes by eyes always open and working hands; and there is no knowledge that is not power.
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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.
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Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.
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Language is the archives of history.
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Leave this hypocritical prating about the masses. Masses are rude, lame, unmade, pernicious in their demands and influence, and need not to be flattered, but to be schooled. I wish not to concede anything to them, but to tame, drill, divide, and break them up, and draw individuals out of them.
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Let a man then know his worth, and keep things under his feet. Let him not peep or steal, or skulk up and down with the air of a charity-boy, a bastard, or an interloper.
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Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.
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