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There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good. One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may.
It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.
Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.