Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not.
Category Archive: 1842
Music is love in search of a word.
If you want to be found stand where the seeker seeks.
Dreams have as much influence as actions.
To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state.
Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
Man lives for science as well as bread.
If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
The law is an adroit mixture of customs that are beneficial to society, and could be followed even if no law existed, and others that are of advantage to a ruling minority, but harmful to the masses of men, and can be enforced on them only by terror.