Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.
Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.
We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.
Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
A more secret, sweet, and overpowering beauty appears to man when his heart and mind open to the sentiment of virtue.
We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates.
It is the privilege of any human work which is well done to invest the doer with a certain haughtiness. He can well afford not to conciliate whose faithful work will answer for him.
Too busy with the crowded hour to fear to live or die.
Sanity is very rare every man almost and every woman has a dash of madness.
Alas for the unhappy man that is called to stand in the pulpit and not give the bread of life.
Great men are they who see that the spiritual is stronger than any material force that thoughts rule the world.
The peace of the man who has foresworn the use of the bullet seems to me not quite peace but a canting impotence.
Fear is an instructor of great sagacity and the herald of all revolutions.
Nature is too thin a screen the glory of the omnipresent God bursts through everywhere.
Shallow men believe in luck wise and strong men in cause and effect.
Trust the instinct to the end though you can render no reason.
Discontent is want of self-reliance it is infirmity of will.
The meaning of good and bad of better and worse is simply helping or hurting.