A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.
The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine.
One idea lights a thousand candles.
Tis the good reader that makes the good book.
Spiritual force is stronger than material force thoughts rule the world.
We aim above the mark to hit the mark.
He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.
Man Thinking must not be subdued by his instruments. Books are for the scholar's idle times. When he can read God directly, the hour is too precious to be wasted in other men's transcripts of their re...
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.
My life should be unique; it should be an alms, a battle, a conquest, a medicine.
All diseases run into one, old age.
In the morning a man walks with his whole body in the evening, only with his legs.
Each age, it is found, must write its own books or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.
Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life.
Language is fossil Poetry.
Virtues are in the popular estimate rather the exception than the rule.
Pictures must not be too picturesque.
The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast.
What lies behind us & what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn