We are always getting ready to live but never living.
Whatever limits us we call Fate.
I find the Englishman to be him of all men who stands firmest in his shoes.
Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers. Christian Bovee A little praise Goes a great ways.
Another point of economy is to look for seed of the same kind as you sow, and not to hope to buy one kind with an other kind. Friendship buys friendship; justice, justice; military merit, military suc...
A man is a hero, not because he is braver than anyone else, but because he is brave for ten minutes longer.
The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is that it scatters your force. It loses your time and blurs the impression of your character.
Some books leave us free and some books make us free.
Of all the ways to lose a person, death is the kindest.
For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom.
Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.
Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.
Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.
Too busy with the crowded hour to fear to live or die.
Strong men greet war tempest hard times. They wish as Pindar said to tread the floors of hell with necessities as hard as iron.
Skill to do comes of doing.
All men are poets at heart.
The louder he talked of his honour the faster we counted our spoons.
To Be is to live with God.