Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.
It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.
Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.
This is the highest wisdom that I own freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.
It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.
Nothing is more highly to be prized than the value of each day
All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, until they take root in our personal experience.
Just trust yourself, then you will know how to live.
Devote each day to the object then in time and every evening will find something done.
If I love you, what business is it of yours?
We always have time enough, if we will but use it aright.
Love can do much, but duty more.
First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.
Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.
We can't form our children on our own concepts we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.
Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.