“We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.”

When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.

It is much easier to try one’s hand at many things than to concentrate one’s powers on one thing.

The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.

Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.

Sayings designed to raise a laugh are generally untrue and never complimentary. Laughter is never far removed from derision.

To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.

Give bread to a stranger, in the name of the universal brotherhood which binds together all men under the common father of nature.

If you direct your whole thought to work itself, none of the things which invade eyes or ears will reach the mind.

One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.

While we ponder when to begin, it becomes too late to do.

From writing rapidly it does not result that one writes well, but from writing well it results that one writes rapidly.

Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.

We should not speak so that it is possible for the audience to understand us, but so that it is impossible for them to misunderstand us.

A man who tries to surpass another may perhaps succeed in equaling in not actually surpassing him, but one who merely follows can never quite come up with him: a follower, necessarily, is always behind.

The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.

There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.

More ocean than terra firma. More shadow than form.

When we are formed inwardly, outer issues do become much more manageable.

It is as if to say: if these are not valued – if these forms of wanting and feeling and speaking and doing – are not cultivated and encouraged and rewarded in the child, then the child will be mad.

Imitation is the highest form of flattery.

I love music videos, I really do. I think it’s kind of sad that it’s a dying art form.

You are God’s highest form of creation. You are a living breathing creative magnet. You have the ability to control what you attract into your life.

God makes nothing without order, and everything that forms itself develops imperceptibly out of small parts.

This form of dancing can’t be dated, it’s such an intriguing form of dance because the feet are also an an instrument.