We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.
That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed, but our power to do so is increased.
Wise men put their trust in ideas and not in circumstances.
Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics...
Life is a series of surprises and would not be worth taking or keeping if it were not.
We acquire the strength we have overcome.
Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.
The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?
Earth laughs in flowers.
Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.
Great men or men of great gifts you shall easily find, but symmetrical men never.
We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.
Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.
A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.
We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.
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.
A man is a method a progressive arrangement a selecting principle gathering his like unto him wherever he goes. What you are comes to you.
The whole of what we know is a system of compensations. Each suffering is rewarded each sacrifice is made up every debt is paid.
An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man.