The great omission in American life is solitude;
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The great omission in American life is solitude; not loneliness, for this is an alienation that thrives most in the midst of crowds, but that zone of time and space, free from the outside pressures, which is the incubator of the spirit.
The bathtub was invented in 1850 and the telephone in 1875. In other words, if you had been living in 1850, you could have sat in the bathtub for 25 years without having to answer the phone.
Whenever science makes a discovery, the devil gra
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Whenever science makes a discovery, the devil grabs it while the angels are debating the best way to use it.
It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up t
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It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passions, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.
To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doi
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To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
Sometimes, in a summer morning, having taken my a
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Sometimes, in a summer morning, having taken my accustomed bath, I sat in my sunny doorway from sunrise till noon, rapt in reverie.
How long a minute is, depends on which side of th
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How long a minute is, depends on which side of the bathroom door you're on.
Peace hath higher tests of manhood
Than battl
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Peace hath higher tests of manhood
Than battle ever knew.
God himself took a day to rest in, and a good man
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God himself took a day to rest in, and a good man's grave is his Sabbath.
Mirth is God's medicine. Everybody ought to
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Mirth is God's medicine. Everybody ought to bathe in it.
If you are physically sick, you can elicit the in
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If you are physically sick, you can elicit the interest of a battery of physicians; but if you are mentally sick, you are lucky if the janitor comes around.
The race is not always to the swift nor the battl
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The race is not always to the swift nor the battle to the strong, but that's the way to bet.
People who make puns are like wanton boys that pu
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People who make puns are like wanton boys that put coppers on the railroad tracks. They amuse themselves and other children, but their little trick may upset a freight train of conversation for the sake of a battered witticism.
Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes o
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Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.
Our battle-fields, safe in the keeping
Of Nat
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Our battle-fields, safe in the keeping
Of Nature's kind, fostering care,
Are blooming, - our heroes are sleeping, -
And peace broods perennial there.
What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have res
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What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell of a laugh!
Be kind. Everyone you meet is fighting a ha
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Be kind. Everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
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