A sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
Artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like bees they must put their lives into the sting they give.
For each new morning with its light,For rest and shelter of the night,For health and food, for love and friends,For everything Thy goodness sends.
Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.
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.
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.
She shows us only surfaces but Nature is a million fathoms deep.
People do not seem to realise that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.
In good company there is never such discourse between two, across the table, as takes place when you leave them alone. In good company, the individuals merge their egotism into a social soul exactly c...
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 is creative reading as well as creative writing.
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...
Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.
Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.
Earth laughs in flowers.
Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.
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.
To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.