To Be is to live with God.
We are always getting ready to live but never living.
A believer a mind whose faith is consciousness is never disturbed because other persons do not yet see the fact which he sees.
So nigh is grandeur to our dust So near is God to man. When Duty whispers low Thou must The youth replies I can.
Courage consists of the power of self-recovery.
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
The eloquent man is he who is no beautiful speaker but who is inwardly and desperately drunk with a certain belief.
No sensible person ever made an apology.
It is time to be old To take in sail.
Play out the game act well your part and if the gods have blundered we will not.
Men achieve a certain greatness unawares when working to another aim.
Flowers and fruits are always fit presents; flowers, because they are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world. These gay natures contrast with the somewhat ster...
Language is fossil poetry. As the limestone of the continent consists of infinite masses of the shells of animalcules, so language is made up of images, or tropes, which now, in their secondary use, h...
Why should I cumber myself with regrets that the receiver is not capacious? It never troubles the sun that some of his rays fall wide and vain into ungrateful space, and only a small part on the refle...
Even in the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings.
We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.
A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.
Genius always finds itself a century too early.
Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.
Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.