In the mountains, the shortest way is from peak to peak: but for that you must have long legs
When a man talks with absolute sincerity and freedom he goes on a voyage of discovery. The whole company has shares in the enterprise.
All progress is experimental.
People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning and put them on a bank to dry in the sun with hot chocolate and muffins they wonder whether they are catching cold.
Attack another's rights and you destroy your own.
There are plenty of people to whom the crucial problem of their lives never get presented in terms that they can understand.
The world values the seer above all men, and has always done so. Nay, it values all men in proportion as they partake of the character of seers. The Elgin Marbles and a decision of John Marshall are valued for the same reason. What we feel in them is a painstaking submission to facts beyond the author's control, and to ideas imposed on him by his vision. So with Beethoven's Symphonies, with Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations - with any conceivable output of the human mind of which you approve. You love them because you say, These things were not made, they were seen.
Disapproval is a very important factor in all progress. There has really never been any progress without it.
If you hear someone scream, you shouldn't close the drapes. You should help. You've got to try.
Discipline and concentration are a matter of being interested.
Share weight and woe, for misfortune falls with double force on him that stands alone.