"The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye"
"There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere"
"There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount"
"There is creative reading as well as creative writing"
"There is an optical illusion about every person we meet"
"There is always safety in valor"
"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"
"The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles"
"You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late"
"Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment"
"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"
"Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused"
"As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey"
"An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory"
"Nature hates calculators"
"Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them"
