We take care of our health we lay up money we make our roof tight and our clothing sufficient but who provides wisely that he shall not be wanting in the best property of all-friends.
Patience and fortitude conquer all things.
Proportion is almost impossible to human beings. There is no one who does not exaggerate.
Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.
There is no strong performance without a little fanaticism in the performer.
Beauty without expression tires.
Every calamity is a spur and valuable hint.
The world is all gates all opportunities strings of tension waiting to be struck.
The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men round to his opinion 20 years later.
It is easy to live for others, everybody does. I call on you to live for yourself.
There is a difference between truly listening and waiting for your turn to talk.
Heartily know, when half-gods go, the gods arrive.
You Life is a progress, and not a station.
To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beau...
The efforts which we make to escape from our destiny only serve to lead us into it
All things are engaged in writing their history...Not a foot steps into the snow, or along the ground, but prints in characters more or less lasting, a map of its march. The ground is all memoranda an...
Beauty will not come at the call of a legislature, nor will it repeat in England or America its history in Greece. It will come, as always, unannounced, and spring up between the feet of brave and ear...
Beauty will not come at the call of the legislature.... It will come, as always, unannounced, and spring up between the feet of brave and earnest men.
Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain.
Every word was once a poem.