 Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed by them. |
| Faith never makes a confession. |
| They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar. |
| We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn. |
| Alas! how little does the memory of these human inhabitants enhance the beauty of the landscape! |
| There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspect. |
| Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. |
| I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will. |
| Dreams are the touchstones of our character. |
| It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are... than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise. |
| We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect. |
| Beware of all enterprises that require a new set of clothes. |
| As if you could kill time without injuring eternity. |
| I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. |
| A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting. |
| You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. |
| Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it. |
| What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us. |
| Do not worry if you have built your castles in the air. They are where they should be. Now put the foundations under them. |
| It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right. |
