“In the art of design, color is to form what verse is to prose,--a more harmonious and luminous vehicle of the thought.”
“A bond is necessary to complete our being, only we must be careful that the bond does not become bondage.”
Source: A commonplace book of thoughts, memories and fancies, original and selected
“There are brains so large that they unconsciously swamp all individualities ties which come in contact or too near, and brains so small that they cannot take in the conception of any other individuality as a whole, only in part or parts.”
“Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.”
Source: A commonplace book of thoughts, memories and fancies, original and selected
“In every mind where there is a strong tendency to fear there is a strong capacity to hate. Those who dwell in fear dwell nest door to hate; and I think it is the cowardice of women which makes them such intense haters.”
Source: A commonplace book of thoughts, memories and fancies, original and selected
“Satan--the impersonation of that mixture of the bestial, the malignant, the impious, and the hopeless, which constitute the fiend--the enemy of all that is human and divine.”
Source: A commonplace book of thoughts, memories and fancies, original and selected
“The moment one begins to solder right and wrong together, one's conscience becomes like a piece of plated goods.”
Source: A commonplace book of thoughts, memories and fancies, original and selected
“As what we call genius arises out of the disproportionate power and size of a certain faculty, so the great difficulty lies in harmonizing with it the rest of the character.”
Source: A commonplace book of thoughts, memories and fancies, original and selected
“Lavater told Goethe that on a certain occasion when he held the velvet bag in the church as collector of the offerings, he tried to observe only the hands; and he satisfied himself that in every individual the shape of the hand and of the fingers, the action and sentiment in dropping the gift into the bag, were distinctly different and individually characteristic.”
“Blessed is the memory of those who have kept themselves unspotted from the world. Yet more blessed and more dear the memory of those who have kept themselves unspotted in the world.”
Source: A commonplace book of thoughts, memories and fancies, original and selected
