The configuration of my nervous system, like the configuration of the stars, happens of itself, and this ‘itself’ is the real ‘myself.’ From this standpoint here language reveals its limitations with a vengeance I find that I cannot help doing and experiencing, quite freely, what is always ‘right,’ in the sense that the stars are […]
The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors. Holmes Sr., Oliver Wendell
The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions. Cicero
The counterfeit and counterpart Of Nature reproduced in art. Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
The course of every intellectual, if he pursues his journey long and unflinchingly enough, ends in the obvious, from which the nonintellectuals have never stirred. Huxley, Aldous
The course of true love never did run smooth. Shakespeare, William
The coward only threatens when he is safe. Goethe, Johann Von
The coward wretch whose hand and heart Can bear to torture aught below, Is ever first to quail and start From the slightest pain or equal foe. Cook, Eliza
The criterion of true beauty is, that it increases in examination; of false, that it lessens. There is something, therefore, in true beauty that corresponds with the right reason, and it is not merely the creature of fancy. Grenville
The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game. The cynic puts all human actions into two classes – openly bad and secretly […]
The darkest hour in any man’s life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it. Greeley, Horace
The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation. Goethe, Johann Von
