I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor. Do you know your next door neighbor?

“The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.” 

“because to influence a person is to give one's own soul.” 

Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

All art is quite useless.” 

Life consists of what man is thinking about all day.

“But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face. The moment one sits down to think, one becomes all nose, or all forehead, or something horrid. Look at the successful men in any of the learned professions. How perfectly hideous they are! Except, of course, in the Church. But then in the Church they don't think.” 

“We live in an age that reads too much to be wise, and that thinks too much to be beautiful.” 

“I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about it's use. It is hitting below the intellect.” 

“I find him in the curves of certain lines, in the loveliness and subtleties of certain colours.” 

“She is a peacock in everything but beauty!” 

“Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.” 

“Most people are boring and stupid.” 

“You are a wonderful creation. You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.” 

“It is a sad thing to think of, but there is no doubt that genius lasts longer than beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves. In the wild struggle for existence, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds with rubbish and facts, in the silly hope of keeping our place. The thoroughly well-informed man--that is the modern ideal. And the mind of the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-a-brac shop, all monsters and dust, with everything priced above its proper value.” 

“Everything in moderation, including moderation.” 

“Some things are more precious because they don't last long.” 

Other men are lenses through which we read our own minds. 

“Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.” 

“I can resist anything except temptation.” 

Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.

Our minds travel when our bodies are forced to stay at home.

If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him.