quotes

Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. Discuss

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

The sea—this truth must be confessed—has no generosity. No display of manly qualities—courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness—has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power.

Awake, arise, or be forever fallen!

That's the reason they're called lessons...because they lessen from day to day. Discuss

Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.

Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.

I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.

Too much work and too much energy kill a man just as effectively as too much assorted vice or too much drink.

I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite of its being adapted to the author's political views.

Oh, the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called Man! Oh, the little that unhinges it: poor creatures that we are! Discuss

The inward pleasure of imparting pleasure—that is the choicest of all.

In matters of thought and conduct, to be independent is to be abnormal, to be abnormal is to be detested.

He would always feel for her that impersonal admiration which is inspired by anything very large, like the Empire State Building or the Grand Canyon of Arizona.

A nation never falls but by suicide. Discuss

I never deal in transformations, for they are not honest, and no respectable sorceress likes to make things appear to be what they are not.

At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.

Girls are so queer you never know what they mean. They say No when they mean Yes, and drive a man out of his wits for the fun of it. Discuss

Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.

I am almost frighted out of my seven senses.