Sitting back in the evening, stargazing and stroking your dog, is an infallible remedy..

The only prudence in life is concentration..

Machinery is aggressive. The weaver becomes a web, the machinist a machine. If you do not use the tools, they use you. All tools are in one sense edg….

Nobody is glad in the gladness of another, and our system is one of war, of an injurious superiority. Every child of the Saxon race is educated to wi….

Eloquence is the appropriate organ of the highest personal energy..

Immortality. I notice that as soon as writers broach this question they begin to quote. I hate quotation. Tell me what you know..

It is time to be old To take in sail..

Words are alive. Cut them and they bleed..

A good symbol is the best argument, and is a missionary to persuade thousands..

The beautiful rests on the foundations of the necessary..

All diseases run into one, old age..

The world is the perennial miracle which the soul worketh..

The idea of God ends in a paltry Methodist meeting-house..

There is never a beginning, there is never an end, to the inexplicable continuity of this web of God, but always circular power returning into itself..

My doom and my strength is to be solitary..

If you believe in the soul, do not clutch at sensual sweetness before it is ripe on the slow tree of cause and effect..

Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful..

A great man stands on God. A small man on a great man..

Civilization depends on morality..

Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both..

We gain the strength of the temptation we resist..