"What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you"
"We aim above the mark to hit the mark"
"Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors"
"Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think"
"Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing"
"With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now"
"Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom"
"Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change"
"We gain the strength of the temptation we resist"
"We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body"
"We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more"
"We are wiser than we know"
"We are symbols, and inhabit symbols"
"We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse"
"We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state"
"We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples"
"We are always getting ready to live but never living"
"We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases"
"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment"
"To be great is to be misunderstood"
"Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not"
"This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it"
"I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching"
"For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind"
"We must be our own before we can be another's"
"The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers"
"Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods"
"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"
"For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else"
"What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered"
"Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great"
"There is a tendency for things to right themselves"
"The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society"
"Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect"
"Nothing external to you has any power over you"
"Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world"
"Every man I meet is in some way my superior"
"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"
"Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be"
