Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.
A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.
Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.
The faith that stands on authority is not faith.
The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.
We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.
The years teach much which the days never know.
As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.
I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.
Truth is beautiful, without doubt but so are lies.
The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.
Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.
Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.
People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.
Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.
Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.
Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.
Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.
He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.
The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.
We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.
Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
Good men must not obey the laws too well.
The highest revelation is that God is in every man.
Men are what their mothers made them.
We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.
With the past, I have nothing to do nor with the future. I live now.
We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more.
Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.
All mankind love a lover.
Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time.
Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.
As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.
Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.
Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.
The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.
Our faith comes in moments our vice is habitual.
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
Genius always finds itself a century too early.
The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.
All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.
The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.
In the morning a man walks with his whole body in the evening, only with his legs.
Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.
Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.
Our best thoughts come from others.
Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.
Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.
A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.
Beauty without expression is boring.
The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?
I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.
Nature hates calculators.
To be great is to be misunderstood.
Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.
Science does not know its debt to imagination.
Nothing external to you has any power over you.
Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.
No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.
A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
We acquire the strength we have overcome.
Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.
Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.
To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.
A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
Every artist was first an amateur.
All diseases run into one, old age.
Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.
A good indignation brings out all one's powers.
Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.
Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.
Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.
Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.
Each age, it is found, must write its own books or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.
There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.
As soon as there is life there is danger.
A great man is always willing to be little.
Money often costs too much.
Trust men and they will be true to you treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.
Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.
Power and speed be hands and feet.
It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.
What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.
The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.
Pictures must not be too picturesque.
Earth laughs in flowers.
God screens us evermore from premature ideas.
No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.
Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.
Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.
Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.