Al David Quotes
Ill often rush out from Dark Shadows, having made a 5.30PM appointment, working for a couple of hours.
The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. what a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.
Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.
It is impossible for us to think of any thing, which we have not antecedently felt, either by our external or internal senses.
Next to us is not the workman whom we have hired, with whom we love so well to talk, but the workman whose work we are.
Knowledge does not come to us by details, but in flashes of light from heaven.
To be a philosophical Sceptic is the first and most essential step towards being a sound, believing Christian.
It is not enough to be busy so are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?
What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations. Books, the oldest and the best, stand naturally and rightfully on the shelves of every cottage.
Of all sciences there is none, where first appearances are more deceitful than in politics.
If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. But do not care to convince him. Men will believe what they see. Let them see.
Be natural my children. For the writer that is natural has fulfilled all the rules of
How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book!
You've got to marinate your head, in that time and culture.You've got to become them."(Speaking about researching, and reading, and immersing yourself in History)
...early medieval Ireland sounds like a somewhat crazed Wisconsin, in which every dairy farm is an armed camp at perpetual war with its neighbors, and every farmer claims he is a king.
While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them
In my opinion, the sun was made to light worthier toil than this.
What are these pines & these birds about? What is this pond a-doing? I must know a little more.
...is not Nature, rightly read, that of which she is commonly taken to be the symbol merely?
I believe that the mind can be permanently profaned by the habit of attending to trivial things.
I suppose that I have not many months to live: but of course I know nothing about it. I may add that I am enjoying existence as much as ever, and regret nothing.
They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar
I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.
...I hope that simple love and truth will be strong in the end. I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world.
To have all those noble Romans alive before me, and walking in and out for my entertainment, instead of being the stern taskmasters they had been at school, was a most novel and delightful effect.
There's nothing like a good, long sleep to allow unpleasantness to recede into the past.
In Buddhism we also interprete Dharma to mean 'cessation, ' as in the end of dissatisfaction, the end of dukkha. This is the purpose of Buddha's teachings.
We have the St. Vitus' dance, and cannot possibly keep our heads still
