Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.
A wise man always throws himself on the side of his assailants. It is more his interests than it is theirs to find his weak point.
A man builds a fine house and now he has a master and a task for life is to furnish watch show it and keep it in repair the rest of his life.
The high prize of life the crowning fortune of a man is to be born with a bias to some pursuit which finds him in employment and happiness.
Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life from the highest point of view.
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...
It has come to be practically a sort of rule in literature that a man having once shown himself capable of original writing is entitled thenceforth to steal from the writings of others at discretion...
Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds.
The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
The disease with which the human mind now labors is want of faith.
Do not be too timid and squeamish. ... All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
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.
The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
Good bye, proud world! I'm going home; Thou art not my friend, and I'm not thine
Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously. And because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all thing...
The god of Victory is said to be one-handed, but Peace gives victory to both sides.
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...