"Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived."

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell | Life and Living | 1 bookmarks

"Most of the things we do, we do for no better reason than that our father's have done them or our neighbors do them, and the same is true of a large part than what we suspect of what we think."

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell | Expectation | 1 bookmarks

"The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live."

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell | Education | 2 bookmarks

"It is certain that if you would have the whole secret of a people, you must enter into the intimacy of their religion."

Quinet, Edgar | Religion | 2 bookmarks

"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo | Achievement | 24 bookmarks

"The glory of friendship is not in the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is in the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo | Friends and Friendship | 14 bookmarks

"Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals."

Mann, Horace | Manners | 4 bookmarks

"Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up the vacancies of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge."

Mann, Horace | Ignorance | 1 bookmarks

"A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated."

Mann, Horace | Education | 2 bookmarks

"If an idiot were to tell you the same story every day for a year, you would end by believing it."

Mann, Horace | Habit | 1 bookmarks