I have no consistency, except in politics and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether.
politics
Man, being reasonable, must get drunk the best of life is but intoxication.
best
A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.
architecture & poetry
Adversity is the first path to truth.
truth
Smiles form the channels of a future tear.
future
I love not man the less, but Nature more.
nature
There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion.
religion
Who loves, raves.
love
Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers.
men
Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.
society
I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness.
happiness & wedding
We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive.
trust
This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions.
age & best
They never fail who die in a great cause.
great
I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.
alone
The heart will break, but broken live on.
moving on
Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.
death & men
Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure.
wisdom
Ye stars! which are the poetry of heaven!
poetry
For truth is always strange stranger than fiction.
truth
Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.
fear , love & Valentine's Day
Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.
knowledge , life & wisdom
Then stirs the feeling infinite, so felt In solitude, where we are least alone.
alone
Out of chaos God made a world, and out of high passions comes a people.
God
'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.
death
Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.
truth
All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin.
happiness
Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.
life & smile
Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.
friendship & love
Absence - that common cure of love.
love
America is a model of force and freedom and moderation - with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people.
freedom
Opinions are made to be changed - or how is truth to be got at?
change & truth
The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
art & great
Friendship is Love without his wings!
friendship & love
I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned.
great
I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.
great & wedding
There is science, logic, reason there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California.
174 quotes about experience
Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.
204 views about education
Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
204 views about education
In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.
174 other views about experience
Don't be afraid of failure be afraid of petty success.
141 other views relating to failure
Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.
158 thoughts relating to courage
The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.
320 other views about death
For more than three thousand years men have quarreled concerning the formulas of their faith.
240 more thoughts about faith
Normality is death.
320 other quotes about death
There's my education in computers, right there this is the whole thing, everything I took out of a book.
13 other sayings regarding computers
Courage: Great Russian word, fit for the songs of our children's children, pure on their tongues, and free.
158 sayings regarding courage
Our dreams drench us in senses, and senses steps us again in dreams.
135 thoughts about dreams
Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.
240 quotes relating to faith
Both expectations and memories are more than mere images founded on previous experience.
174 more wisdom & wit regarding experience
Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
158 sayings about courage
My father never raised his hand to any one of his children, except in self-defense.
38 views relating to dad
Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
158 more thoughts about courage
He who has conquered doubt and fear has conquered failure.
141 views about failure
I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.
43 quotes about equality
Faith is the virtue by which, clinging-to the faithfulness of God, we lean upon him, so that we may obtain what he gives to us.
240 other quotes about faith
Pure truth cannot be assimilated by the crowd it must be communicated by contagion.
41 quotes about communication
When you stop having dreams and ideals - well, you might as well stop altogether.
135 quotes regarding dreams
It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base.
158 more wisdom & wit relating to courage
Failure is impossible.
141 sayings relating to failure
Courage! I have shown it for years think you I shall lose it at the moment when my sufferings are to end?
158 quotes regarding courage
The principal act of courage is to endure and withstand dangers doggedly rather than to attack them.
158 more sayings regarding courage
In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.
320 sayings about death
By experience we find out a short way by a long wandering.
174 other quotes about experience
You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that.
43 other views regarding equality
I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
13 wisdom & wit regarding computers
But, alas! what poor Woman is ever taught that she should have a higher Design than to get her a Husband?
35 thoughts regarding design
Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.
204 sayings regarding education
Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.
320 quotes regarding death
To have been torn from the study would have been as death my time was entirely occupied with art.
320 wisdom & wit about death
Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.
320 other sayings regarding death
Act strenuously, would appear to be our faith, and right thinking will take care of itself.
240 views about faith