"Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant"
"Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail"
"Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense"
"People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character"
"People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know"
"The only way to have a friend is to be one"
"The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?"
"The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization"
"The earth laughs in flowers"
"The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit"
"The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn"
"The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet"
"The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence"
"Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be"
"Our best thoughts come from others"
"All mankind love a lover"
"All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better"
"All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen"
"Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain"
"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail"
"Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment"
"Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused"
"An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory"
"A good indignation brings out all one's powers"
"A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature"
"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines"
"A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us"
"Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact"
"Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both"
"Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated"
"Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors"
"Every artist was first an amateur"
"Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well"
"Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved"
"Earth laughs in flowers"
"Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience"
"A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends"
"A man is what he thinks about all day long"
"A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles"
"A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts"
"A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace"
"A man is a method, a progressive arrangement; a selecting principle, gathering his like to him; wherever he goes"
"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"
"A man in debt is so far a slave"
"A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer"
"A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before"
"Every hero becomes a bore at last"
"Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold"
"Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes"
