You can kill the body, but not the spirit..

Some people swallow the universe like a pill; they travel on through the world, like smiling images pushed from behind..

You seem to me to be a pretty lucky young man; keep your eyes open to your mercies. That part of piety is eternal; and the man who forgets to be grat….

It is the property of things seen for the first time, or for the first time after long, like the flowers in spring, to reawaken in us the sharp edge ….

Fiction is to grown men what play is to the child..

I incline to Cain's heresy," he used to say quaintly: "I let my brother go to the devil in his own way..

If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him..

Sightseeing is the art of disappointment..

Extreme busyness is a symptom of deficient vitality, and a faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity..

Youth now flees on feathered foot..

There is but one art, to omit! Oh, if I knew how to omit I would ask no other knowledge. A man who knows how to omit would make an Iliad of a daily p….

Every child can remember laying his head in the grass, staring into the infinitesimal forest and seeing it grow populous with fairy armies..

Marriage is a step so grave and decisive that it attracts light-headed, variable men by its very awfulness..

I am told there are people who do not care for maps, and I find it hard to believe..

Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in thei….

When your toil has been a pleasure, you have not earned money merely, but money, health, delight, and moral profit, all in one..

It is one of the worst things of sentiment that the voice grows to be more important than the words, and the speaker than that what is spoken..

And if a man reads very hard, as the old anecdote reminds us, he will have little time for thought..

A knowledge that another has felt as we have felt, and seen things not much otherwise than we have seen them, will continue to the end to be one of l….

A proposition of geometry does not compete with life; and a proposition of geometry is a fair and luminous parallel for a work of art. Both are reaso….

For will anyone dare to tell me that business is more entertaining than fooling among boats? He must have never seen a boat, or never seen an office,….