 To generalize is to be an idiot. |
| I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create. |
| It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend. |
| Great things are done when men and mountains meet. |
| What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children. |
| Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth. |
| I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it not, my wrath did grow. |
| Opposition is true friendship. |
| As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers. |
| Those who restrain their desires, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained. |
| It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God only. |
| He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: general Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer, for Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars. |
| Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps. |
| Travelers repose and dream among my leaves. |
| Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you. |
| If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise. |
| Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow. |
| When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do. |
| Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence. |
| The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest. |
