a man only knows what he's experienced
Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.
Imagination is a very high sort of seeing, which does not come by study, but by the intellect being where and what it sees, by sharing the path, or circuits of things through forms, and so making them...
Even in the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings.
If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.
You become what you think about all day long.
Imitation is suicide.
The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.
A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.
Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.
Good is positive. Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of heat. All evil is so much death or nonentity. Benevolence is absolute and real. So much benevolence...
And what greater calamity can fall upon a nation than the loss of worship.
We are reformers in Spring and Summer in Autumn and Winter we stand by the old reformers in the morning conservers at night.
There are three wants which can never be satisfied: that of the rich who want something more that of the sick who want something different and that of the traveler who says "Anywhere but here."
Out of sleeping a waking Out of waking a sleep.
We are very near to greatness: one step and we are safe can we not take the leap?
Every man passes his life in the search after friendship.
A believer a mind whose faith is consciousness is never disturbed because other persons do not yet see the fact which he sees.
Passion though a bad regulator is a powerful spring.
So nigh is grandeur to our dust So near is God to man. When Duty whispers low Thou must The youth replies I can.