Heartily know, when half-gods go, the gods arrive.
Dream delivers us to dream, and there is no end to illusion. Life is like a train of moods like a string of beads, and, as we pass through them, they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint the wo...
Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed. When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost work but the solidest things we know.
Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain.
A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking.
By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote.
No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.
Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.
No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.
The only reward of virtue is virtue.
A man is what he thinks about all day long.
My evening visitors if they cannot see the clock should find the time in my face.
Work and acquire and thou hast chained the wheel of Chance.
I can find my biography in every fable that I read.
You have first an instinct then an opinion then a knowledge as the plant has root bud and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end though you can render no reason.
Accept the place the divine providence has found for you the society of your contemporaries the connection of events.
We look wishfully to emergencies to eventful revolutionary times ... and think how easy to have taken our part when the drum was rolling and the house was burning over our heads.
By the rude bridge that arched the flood,Their flag to April's breeze unfurled,Here once the embattled farmers stood,And fired the shot heard round the world.The foe long since in silence slept;Alike...
Character is what can do without success
When a man is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something.