Echoes

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

When people are friends, they have no need of justice, but when they are just, they need friendship in addition.

Of all the means which wisdom acquires to ensure happiness throughout the whole of life, by far the most important is friendship.

Everything is interaction and reciprocal.

One arrow alone can be easily broken but many arrows are indestructible.

Plato is my friend — Aristotle is my friend — but truth is a greater friend.

Be of one mind and one faith, that you may conquer your enemies and lead long and happy lives.

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.

How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it except the pleasure of seeing it.

The strength of the wolf is the pack, and the strength of the pack is the wolf.

He was that child's stay, and she was his prop. Thanks to him, she could walk through life; thanks to her, he could continue in virtue.

Friendship and domestic happiness are continually praised; yet how little is there of either in the world, because it requires more cultivation of mind to keep awake affection, even in our own hearts, than the common run of people suppose. Besides, few like to be seen as they really are; and a degree of simplicity, and of undisguised confidence, which, to uninterested observers, would almost border on weakness, is the charm, nay the essence of love or friendship, all the bewitching graces of childhood again appearing.

We must, indeed, all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.

I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.

All things are interwoven with one another; a sacred bond unites them; there is scarcely one thing that is isolated from another. Everything is coordinated, everything works together in giving form to one universe. The world-order is a unity made up of multiplicity: God is one, pervading all things; all being is one, all law is one (namely, the common reason which all thinking persons possess) and all truth is one– if, as we believe, there can be but one path to perfection for beings that are alike in kind and reason.

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

May God continue the unity of our country as the railroad unites the two great oceans of the world.

Your thought advocates Judaism, Brahmanism, Buddhism, Christianity, and Islam. In my thought there is only one universal religion, whose varied paths are but the fingers of the loving hand of the Supreme Being. In your thought there are the rich, the poor, and the beggared. My thought holds that there are no riches but life; that we are all beggars, and no benefactor exists save life herself.

Out of my experience, such as it is (and it is limited enough) one fixed conclusion dogmatically emerges, and that is this, that we with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest. The maple and the pine may whisper to each other with their leaves. ... But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground, and the islands also hang together through the ocean's bottom. Just so there is a continuum of cosmic consciousness, against which our individuality builds but accidental fences, and into which our several minds plunge as into a mother-sea or reservoir.

People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.

You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean, in a drop.

Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.