Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live.

Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live.

We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since
things require a seed to start from.
[Lat., read more

We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since
things require a seed to start from.
[Lat., Nil igitur fieri de nilo posse putandum es
Semine quando opus est rebus.]

There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.

There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.

What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.

What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.

Actions of the last age are like almanacs of the last year.

Actions of the last age are like almanacs of the last year.

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the read more

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

A fiery chariot, borne on buoyant pinions,
Sweeps near me now! I soon shall ready be
To read more

A fiery chariot, borne on buoyant pinions,
Sweeps near me now! I soon shall ready be
To pierce the ther's high, unknown dominions,
To reach new spheres of pure activity!

Our grandly business undoubtedly is, not to see what lies dimly
at a distance, but to do what lies read more

Our grandly business undoubtedly is, not to see what lies dimly
at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men
to do nothing.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men
to do nothing.