reflection Quotes

Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.

Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides, to find the other: given the upper, to find the under side.

Every hero becomes a bore at last.

We have listened too long to the courtly Muses of Europe.

For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.

Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods.

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.

There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance.