Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
Nothing external to you has any power over you.
Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
I will not hide my tastes or aversions. I will so trust that what is deep is holy, that I will do strongly before the sun and moon whatever only rejoices me, and the heart appoints
I would put myself in the attitude to look in the eye an abstract truth, and I cannot. I blench and withdraw on this side and on that. I seem to know what he meant who said, No man can see God face to...
Every man is a divinity in disguise, a god playing the fool.
Tobacco, coffee, alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine, are weak dilutions. The surest poison is time.
An institution is the lengthening shadow of one man.
You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.
The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs.
The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.
The way to write is to throw your body at the mark when all your arrows are spent.
Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
The ancestor of every action is a thought.
Valor consists in the power of self-recovery, so that a man cannot have his flank turned, cannot be out-generalled, but put him where you will, he stands. This can only be by his preferring truth to h...
Raphael paints wisdom, Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, writes it, builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it,
A good indignation brings out all one's powers.
Glittering generalities! They are blazing ubiquities.
Money often costs too much.
All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.