Power ceases in the instant of repose; it resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state, in the shooting of the gulf, in the darting to an aim.
The god of Victory is said to be one-handed, but Peace gives victory to both sides.
People do not seem to realise that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
Teach that God is, not was; that He speaketh, not spake.
Don't be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams.
When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare aw...
There are books which take rank in our life with parents and lovers and passionate experiences, so medicinal, so stringent, so revolutionary, so authoritative.
Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.
The way to write is to throw your body at the mark when your arrows are spent.
There is some awe mixed with the joy of our surprise, when this poet, who lived in some past world, two or three hundred years ago, says that which lies close to my own soul, that which I also had wel...
By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote.
Life is a train of moods like a string of beads; and as we pass through them they prove to be many colored lenses, which paint the world their own hue, and each shows us only what lies in its own focu...
Imitation is suicide.
Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.
Power and speed be hands and feet.
In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.
Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.
There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.
I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.
All mankind love a lover.