Essay Quotes
The drama of the essay is the way the public life intersects with my personal and private life. It's in that intersection that I find the energy of the essay.
The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.
Je hay entre autres vices, cruellement la cruauté, et par nature et par jugement, comme l'extreme de tous les vices.
Les naturels sanguinaires à l'endroit des bestes, tesmoignent une propension naturelle à la cruauté.
Nature a, (ce crains-je) elle mesme attaché à l'homme quelque instinct à l'inhumanité
J'accuse toute violence en l'education d'une ame tendre, qu'on dresse pour l'honneur, et la liberté.
....And above all, it is your civilization, it is you. However much you hate it or laugh at it, you will never be happy away from it for any length of time
D'autant que nous avons cher, estre, et estre consiste en mouvement et action.
Heureuse la mort qui oste le loisir aux apprests de tel equipage.
L'utilité du vivre n'est pas en l'espace: elle est en l'usage.
Music resembles poetry, in eachAre nameless graces which no methods teach, And which a master hand alone can reach.
The decision is your own voice, an opinion is the echo of someone else's voice.
A powerful process automatically takes care of progress, productivity and profits.
Most of the people readily accept the principle but resist its practice.
If where you are is worthwhile then where you are from doesn't matter.
For few matters you need to be solo, for some matters you need soul mate and for many matters you need society,
Before we complicated life with money, machines and missiles we did well with morals, manpower and meetings.
Mixing old wine with new wine is stupidity, but mixing old wisdom with new wisdom is maturity.
The wrong man is not always wrong because of his wrong actions, often he is wrong because of no actions.
Brilliance of the brain must be admired more than beauty of the body.
Uniform of a soldier and uniform of a student both are equally needed for the nation.
Don't always use prudence for precaution, sometimes use it for progress.
Travel has a way of making the world a much smaller place.
It is possible to be a great novelist - that is, to render a veracious account of your times - and a bad writer - that is, an incompetent practitioner of applied linguistics.
I thank my mother (Ma, you're only second cause you got the dedication), who used to make me write essays whenever I got into trouble, explaining exactly what I'd done and why I'd done it.
It's the only way anything will change. Because we are both mother and child, cause and effect, villain and victim