wanderlust

You see things, and you say why? But i dream things that never were, and say why not”?

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them-that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Don’t read too deeply into the things I say. You might drown.

Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously.

A great fire burns within me, but no one stops to warm themselves at it, and passers-by only see a wisp of smoke.

When man’s nature prevails over his culture, he’s a savage. If culture wholly subdues nature, the result is a pedant. But when nature and culture are fused with consummate elegance, then we have a wise man.

The True Gentleman is the man whose conduct proceeds from good will and an acute sense of propriety and whose self-control is equal to all emergencies; who does not make the poor man conscious of his poverty, the obscure man of his obscurity, or any man of his inferiority or deformity; who is himself humbled if necessity compels him to humble another; who does not flatter wealth, cringe before power, or boast of his own possessions or achievements; who speaks with frankness but always with sincerity and sympathy; whose deed follows his word; who thinks of the rights and feelings of others rather than his own; and who appears well in any company; a man with whom honor is sacred and virtue safe