For we do not do what we want to do, but what is easiest and most natural for us to do, and if it is easy for us to do the wrong thing, it is that that we will do.
So to all who are situated as I am, I would say–Grow up as fast as you can.
The ironist is ironical not because he does not care, but because he cares too much.
The world has never favored the experimental life. It despises poets, fanatics, prophets and lovers.
We can easily become as much slaves to precaution as we can to fear.
Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing.
A man with few friends is only half-developed there are whole sides of his nature which are locked up and have never been expressed. He cannot unlock them himself he cannot even discover them friends alone can stimulate him and open him.
Good friendships are fragile things and require as much care as any other fragile and precious thing.
A man with few friends is only half-developed there are whole sides of his nature which are locked up and have never been expressed. He cannot unlock them himself he cannot even discover them friends alone can stimulate him and open him.
Our real duty is always found running in the direction of our worthiest desires.
We may by our excessive prudence squeeze out of the life we are guarding so anxiously all the adventurous quality that makes it worth living.
Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.
Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue likes, and then placing it in the most convenient niche it has.