I have thought there was some advantage even in death by which we mingle...
Things do not change we change.
Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords...
I think that there is nothing not even crime more opposed to poetry to...
Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can...
It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.
The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm...
I did not wish to take a cabin passage but rather to go before the mast and...
Read the best books first or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
That government is best which governs least.
Alas! how little does the memory of these human inhabitants enhance the...
The perception of beauty is a moral test.
This world is but a canvas to our imagination.
They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.
No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the...
There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely while...
The man who goes alone can start today but he who travels with another must...
A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.
I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are...
I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as...
None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.
It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young.
