If the single man plants himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abides, this huge world will come around to him.
Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.
When you were born you were crying and everyone else was smiling. Live your life so at the end, your're the one who is smiling and everyone else is crying.
It is one of the beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.
Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.
It makes a great difference in the force of a sentence whether a man be behind it or no.
There are some men above grief and some men below it.
Steam is no stronger now than it was a hundred years ago but it is put to better use.
The merit claimed for the Anglican Church is that if you let it alone it will let you alone.
Though I am weak yet God when prayed Cannot withhold his conquering aid.
To the dull mind all nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light.
The secret of success in society is a certain heartiness and sympathy.
The condition which high friendship demands is the ability to do without it.
When I first open my eyes upon the morning meadows and look out upon the beautiful world I thank God I am alive.
If a man has good corn or wood or boards or pigs to sell or can make better chairs or knives crucibles or church organs than anybody else you will find a broad hardbeaten road to his house t...
We do not live an equal life but one of contrasts and patchwork now a little joy then a sorrow now a sin then a generous or brave action.
Whatever you do you need courage. ... To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage which a soldier needs.
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself...
We ascribe beauty to that which is simple which has no superfluous parts which exactly answers its ends.