S.A. David Quotes
For a man needs only to be turned around once with his eyes shut in this world to be lost...Not 'til we are lost do we begin to find ourselves.
"Hear! hear!" screamed the jay from a neighboring tree, where I had heard a tittering for some time, "winter has a concentrated and nutty kernel, if you know where to look for it."
It is remarkable how easily and insensibly we fall into a particular route, and make a beaten track for ourselves.
A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind.
The law will never make a man free; it is men who have got to make the law free.
What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.
A Friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us.
Must be out-of-doors enough to get experience of wholesome reality, as a ballast to thought and sentiment. Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life.
How few things can a man measure with the tape of his understanding ; How many greater things might he be seeing in the meanwhile.
I believe that the mind can be permanently profaned by the habit of attending to trivial things, so that all our thoughts shall be tinged with triviality.
As to conforming outwardly and living your own life inwardly, I do not think much of that.
I love you not as something private and personal, which is my own, but as something universal and worthy of love which I have found.
The flowers of the apple are perhaps the most beautiful of any tree's, so copious and so delicious to both sight and scent.
In all perception of the truth there is a divine ecstasy, an inexpressible delirium of joy, as when a youth embraces his betrothed virgin.
The ocean is a wilderness reaching round the globe, wilder than a Bengal jungle, and fuller of monsters, washing the very wharves of our cities and the gardens of our sea-side residences.
When a noble deed is done, who is likely to appreciate it? They who are noble themselves.
No doubt another may also think for me; but it is not therefore desirable that he should do so to the exclusion of my thinking for myself.
Where there is an observatory and a telescope, we expect that any eyes will see new worlds at once.
Love your life, poor as it is. You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even in a poor-house.
The labeling of nociceptors as pain fibers was not an admirable simplification, but an unfortunate trivialization under the guise of simplification.
Some people say there are plenty of fish in the sea - until you find love - then there is only one.
No man ever threw away life while it was worth keeping.
Every blade in the field - Every leaf in the forest - lays down its life in its season as beautifully as it was taken up.
He who hears the rippling of rivers in these degenerate days will not utterly despair.
The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.
Man wanted a home, a place for warmth, or comfort, first of physical warmth, then the warmth of the affections.
I have an immense appetite for solitude, like an infant for sleep, and if I don't get enough for this year, I shall cry all the next.
Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives. - John Adams
Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion.
Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then.
Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resigns his conscience to the legislator? Why has every man a conscience then? I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterward.