197 quotes
Thy money, thy office, thy reputation are nothing; put away these phantom clothings, and stand like an athlete stripped for the battle.
Aphorisms and Reflections (1901)
They whom trifles distract and nothing occupies are but children.
Aphorisms and Reflections (1901)
If we attempt to sink the soul in matter, its light is quenched.
Aphorisms and Reflections (1901)
The seeking for truth is better than its loveless possession.
Aphorisms and Reflections (1901)
They who can no longer unlearn have lost the power to learn.
Aphorisms and Reflections (1901)
When we have attained success, we see how inferior it is to the hope, yearning and enthusiasm with which we started forth in life’s morning.
Aphorisms and Reflections (1901)
Reform the world within thyself, which is thy proper world.
Aphorisms and Reflections (1901)
The happiness of the ignorant is but an animal’s paradise.
Aphorisms and Reflections (1901)
Faith, like love, unites; opinion, like hate, separates.
Aphorisms and Reflections (1901)
Whom little things occupy and keep busy, are little men.
Aphorisms and Reflections (1901)
One may speak Latin and have but the mind of a peasant.
Aphorisms and Reflections (1901)
Beauty lies not in the things we see, but in the soul.
Aphorisms and Reflections (1901)
The innocence which is simply ignorance is not virtue.
Aphorisms and Reflections (1901)
The best book is but the record of the best life.
Aphorisms and Reflections (1901)
Be watchful lest thou lose the power of desiring and loving what appeals to the soul—this is the miser’s curse—this the chain and ball the sensualist drags.
Aphorisms and Reflections (1901)
They who think they know all, learn nothing.
Aphorisms and Reflections (1901)
What purifies the heart refines language.
Aphorisms and Reflections (1901)
Base thy life on principle, not on rules.
Aphorisms and Reflections (1901)
A hobby is the result of a distorted view of things. It is putting a planet in the place of a sun.
Aphorisms and Reflections (1901)
Believe in no triumph which is won by the deadening of human faculty or the dwarfing of human life. Strive for truth and love, not for victory.
Aphorisms and Reflections (1901)