Society and the World

I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men.

The acquisition of knowledge is always of use to the intellect, because it may thus drive out useless things and retain the good. For nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first known.

Water is the driving force of all nature.

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.

Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer. Go some distance away because then the work appears smaller and more of it can be taken in at a glance and a lack of harmony and proportion is more readily seen.

He who wishes to be rich within a day, will be hanged within a year.

He who wishes to be rich within a day, will be hanged within a year.

The mind that engages in subjects of too great variety becomes confused and weakened.

He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.

One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.

Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.

It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.

Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets.

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Learning never exhausts the mind.