Reverence the highest, have patience with the lowest. Let this day’s performance of the meanest duty be thy religion. Are the stars too distant, pick up the pebble that lies at thy feet, and from it learn the all.
What a difference it makes to come home to a child!
Very early, I knew that the only object in life was to grow.
Harmony exists no less in difference than in likeness, if only the same key-note govern both parts.
A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
Would that … a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till public and private honour become identical.
I am suffocated and lost when I have not the bright feeling of progression.
Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved.
Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.
Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.
A house is no home unless it contain food and fire for the mind as well as for the body.
The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency.
If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.
Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens to solid, solid rushes to fluid. There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman.
Art can only be truly art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life.
Would that the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy, might be laid to heart; that a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till public and private honor become identical.
It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.
Two persons love in one another the future good which they aid one another to unfold.