I've never been an intellectual but I have this look.

I've never been an intellectual but I have this look.

Distance has the same effect on the mind as on the eye.

Distance has the same effect on the mind as on the eye.

The weakest living creature, by concentrating his powers on a single object, can accomplish good results while the strongest, by read more

The weakest living creature, by concentrating his powers on a single object, can accomplish good results while the strongest, by dispersing his effort over many chores, may fail to accomplish anything. Drops of water, by continually falling, hone their passage through the hardest of rocks but the hasty torrent rushes over it with hideous uproar and leaves no trace behind.

Conversation should touch everything, but should concentrate itself on nothing.

Conversation should touch everything, but should concentrate itself on nothing.

Liberty is being free from the things we don't like in order to be slaves of the things we do read more

Liberty is being free from the things we don't like in order to be slaves of the things we do like.

The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal.

The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal.

Deliberately to pursue happinesss is not the surest way of achieving it. Seek it for its own sake and I read more

Deliberately to pursue happinesss is not the surest way of achieving it. Seek it for its own sake and I doubt whether you will find it.

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

If you think you're free, there's no escape possible.

If you think you're free, there's no escape possible.