One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.
The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.
Characters must not brood too long. They must not waste time running up and down ladders in their own insides.
What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?
When you come back you will not be you. And I may not be I.
The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.
There's never any great risk as long as you have money.
The sun was already declining and each of the trees held a premonition of night.
There are moments when the inner life actually 'pays,' when years of self-scrutiny, conducted for no ulterior motive, are suddenly of practical use.
Think before you speak is criticism's motto; speak before you think, creation's.
The emotions may be endless. The more we express them, the more we may have to express.
One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys.
Books have to be read it is the only way of discovering what they contain.
Curiosity is one of the lowest of the human faculties. You will have noticed in daily life that when people are inquisitive they nearly always have bad memories and are usually stupid at bottom.
What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.
But it struck him that people are not really dead until they are felt to be dead. As long as there is some misunderstanding about them, they possess a sort of immortality.
The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot.
You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you.
. . . life is sometimes life and sometimes only a drama, and one must learn to distinguish t'other from which . . .
It is thus, if there is any rule, that we ought to die--neither as victim nor as fanatic, but as the seafarer who can greet with an equal eye the deep that he is entering, and the shore that he must leave.
The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world.
I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.
It makes a difference doesn't it, whether we fully fence ourselves in, or whether we are fenced out by the barriers of others?
One can run away from women, turn them out, or give in to them. No fourth course.
Love is a great force in private life; it is indeed the greatest of all things; but love in public affairs does not work.
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