Nature is reckless of the individual. When she has points to carry she carries them
To believe in luck ... is skepticism.
Happiness is a perfume which you cannot pour on someone without getting some on yourself.
The cultivated man wise to know and bold to perform is the end to which nature works.
A man finds room in a few square inches of his face for the traits of all his ancestors for the expression of all his history and his wants.
All great men come out of the middle classes.
Want is a growing giant whom the coat of Have was never large enough to cover.
For everything you have missed you have gained something else.
I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being well-dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which religion is powerless to bestow.
A friend might well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
AH I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.
There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance that imitation is suicide that he must take himself for better for worse as his portion.
A cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word.
We are reformers in spring and summer in autumn and winter we stand by the old reformers in the morning conservers at night. Reform is affirmative conservatism negative conservatism goes for comf...
A sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
We change whether we like it or not.
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful we must carry it with us or we will not find it.
Some thoughts always find us young and keep us so. Such a thought is the love of the universal and eternal beauty.
Artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like bees they must put their lives into the sting they give.
New York is a sucked orange.