All quotes

The love of protecting too often degenerates into downright tyranny.

A man cannot deserve adventures; he cannot earn dragons and hippogriffs.

If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.

It is not down in any map; true places never are

These young people have had advantages of college, of European travel, and of economic study, but they are sustaining this shock of inaction.

it is nevertheless often true that one man's vulgarity is another's lyric

The dullest eye in the world must surely be quickened by such trees as these.

All silencing of discussion is an assumption of infallibility.

A man who is morose or violent to his equals, is sure to be one who has lived among inferiors, whom he could frighten or worry into submission.

Her power often gives her what she has no right to, but does not enable her to assert her own rights.

If ever any system of privilege and enforced subjection had its yoke tightly riveted on the necks of those who are kept down by it, this has.

A provision of endless apparatus, a bustle of infinite inquiry and research, or even the mere mechanical labour of copying, may be employed, to evade and shuffle off real labour—the real labour of thinking.

Acquire a method of perceiving how all things change into one another.

The world does not count races and nations that have nothing.

But we have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us, and the more we gain, the more is our desire; the more we see, the more are we capable of seeing.

I was thrown out of work, and now that I had got into the habit of writing I did not know what to make of my spare time.

Every corps is a chain of despots, who, submitting and tyrannizing without exercising their reason, become dead weights of vice and folly on the community.

The being who patiently endures injustice, and silently bears insults, will soon become unjust, or unable to discern right from wrong.

This habit of putting off until tomorrow that which you should have done last week or last year or a score of years ago is gnawing at the very vitals of your being, and you can accomplish nothing until you throw it off.

Genius unexecuted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks.

Many of us imprison ourselves in the narrow limited poverty thought, and then, like caged eagles trying in vain to get free, we beat out our wings against the bars we have ourselves put up.

Do not brood over the past, or dream of the future, but seize the instant and get your lesson from the hour.

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself

It is better therefore to listen patiently to a friend's rebuke, for if he should afterwards do wrong himself and so need rebuke, he has set you the example of freedom of speech.

nature makes us free and unrestrained, but we bind and confine immure and force ourselves into small and scanty space