The soul contains the event that shall befall it for the event is only the actualization of its thoughts and what we pray to ourselves for is always granted.
Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.
Philanthropies and charities have a certain air of quackery.
The power which resides in man is new in nature and none but he knows what that is which he can do nor does he until he has tried.
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could some blunders and absurdities have crept in forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day you shall begin it serenely and w...
If a man own land the land owns him.
Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds.
Calmness is always Godlike.
A great man stands on God. A small man stands on a great man.
The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education but the means of education.
Do not be too timid and squeamish. ... All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
Every burned book enlightens the world.
Neither is a dictionary a bad book to read. There is no cant in it no excess of explanation and it is full of suggestions the raw material of possible poems and histories.
It facilitates labor and thought so much that there is always the temptation in large schools to omit the endless task of meeting the wants of each single mind, and to govern by steam. But it is at fr...
Good bye, proud world! I'm going home; Thou art not my friend, and I'm not thine
Character is what can do without success
You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.
A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic.
Scatter joy!