True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.
—Edith Wharton, 1924
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Sport is the bloom and glow of a perfect health.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1838For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.
—Charles Baudelaire, c. 1865Under all speech that is good for anything, there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as eternity; speech is shallow as time.
—Thomas Carlyle, 1838The true art of memory is the art of attention.
—Samuel Johnson, 1759We must not always talk in the marketplace of what happens to us in the forest.
—Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1850A traveler’s chief aim should be to make men wiser and better, and to improve their minds by the bad—as well as good—example of what they deliver concerning foreign places.
—Jonathan Swift, 1726Making a film means, first of all, to tell a story. That story can be an improbable one, but it should never be banal. It must be dramatic and human. What is drama, after all, but life with the dull bits cut out?
—Alfred Hitchcock, 1962The body is an instrument which only gives off music when it is used as a body.
—Anaïs Nin, 1935No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.
—Bertrand Russell, 1961We must confess that at present the rich predominate, but the future will be for the virtuous and ingenious.
—Jean de La Bruyère, 1688The state dictates and coerces; religion teaches and persuades. The state enacts laws; religion gives commandments. The state is armed with physical force and makes use of it if need be; the force of religion is love and benevolence.
—Moses Mendelssohn, 1783Men are generally more pleased with a widespread than with a great reputation.
—Pliny the Younger, c. 110