Consequences are unpitying.
Each thought is a nail that is driven In structures that cannot decay; And the mansion at last will be given To us as we build it each day.
I at least have so much to do in unraveling certain human lots, and seeing how they were woven and interwoven, that all the light I can command must be concentrated on this particular web, and not dispersed over that tempting range of relevancies called the universe.
It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.
There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles… but there is one order of beauty which seems made to turn the heads not only of men, but of all intelligent mammals, even of women. It is a beauty like that of kittens, or very small downy ducks making gentle rippling noises with their soft bills, or babies just beginning to toddle and to engage in conscious mischief -a beauty with which you can never be angry, but that you feel ready to crush for inability to comprehend the state of mind into which it throws you.
A mother’s yearning feels the presence of the cherished child even in the degraded man.
Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
Your dreams may have shattered, but that doesn’t mean they are over. They can still be turned into a mosaic of success.
I do not know how to distinguish between our waking life and a dream. Are we not always living the life that we imagine we are?
For disappointments, that come not by our own folly, they are the trials or corrections of Heaven: and it is our own fault, if they prove not our advantage.
Watch what you say, and whatever you say, practice it.
Remember, when life’s path is steep, to keep your mind even.
I could not find the world if I searched ten years. I’ve forgotten the road by which I came.
The bluebird carries the sky on his back.
Annihilation has no terrors for me, because I have already tried it before I was born -a hundred million years -and I have suffered more in an hour, in this life, than I remember to have suffered in the whole hundred million years put together. There was a peace, a serenity, an absence of all sense of responsibility, an absence of worry, an absence of care, grief, perplexity; and the presence of a deep content and unbroken satisfaction in that hundred million years of holiday which I look back upon with a tender longing and with a grateful desire to resume, when the opportunity comes.
I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a Mind.
Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.
The world will never be long without some good reason to hate the unhappy; their real faults are immediately detected, and if those are not sufficient to sink them into infamy, an additional weight of calumny will be super added.
We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.
When you are present, you can allow the mind to be as it is without getting entangled in it.
How real is any of the past, being every moment revalued to make the present possible.
People who can’t be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate.
