Don't cuss. Don't argue with the officials. And don't lose the game.
To make an end of all things on Earth, and our Planetical System of the World, he (God) need but put out the Sun.
Were the happiness of the next world is as closely apprehended as the felicities of this, it were a martyrdom to live.
How shall we expect charity towards others, when we are uncharitable to ourselves?
A man is never alone, not only because he is with himself and his own thoughts, but because he is with the Devil, who ever consorts with our solitude.
I am in no way facetious, nor disposed for the mirth and galliardize of company, yet in one dream I can compose a whole Comedy, behold the action, apprehend the jests, and laugh myself awake at the conceits thereof.
Art is the perfection of nature,. . . nature is the art of God.
Learn not to judge your meditation. Just meditate, do your best, set a minimum period of time and meditate.
A person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily mended.
Life on Earth will never be fair the way we expect it to be.
You'll get everything society can give a man. You'll keep all the money. You'll take any fame or honor anyone might want to grant. You'll accept such gratitude as the tenants might feel. And I - I'll take what nobody can give a man, except himself. I will have built Cortlandt. - Howard Roark