An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man.
To fill the hour and leave no crevice ... that is happiness.
How casually and unobservedly we make all our most valued acquaintances.
All infractions of love and equity in our social relations are ... punished by fear.
Wilt thou seal up the avenues of ill? Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill!
We think our civilization near its meridian but we are yet only at the cock-crowing and the morning star.
Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors.
Whatever course you decide upon there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a cours...
The good news is that the moment you decide that what you know is more important than what you have been taught to believe, you will have shifted gears in your quest for abundance. Success comes from...
If the single man plants himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abides, this huge world will come around to him.
The reward of a thing well done is having done it.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
By the rude bridge that arched the flood Their flag to April's breeze unfurl'd Here once the embattl'd farmers stood And fired the shot heard round the world.
Five great enemies to peace inhabit us: avarice ambition envy anger and pride. If those enemies were to be banished we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.
To laugh often and much;to win the respect of intelligent peopleand the affection of children,to leave the world a better place,to know even one life has breathed easierbecause you have lived,this is...
Life consists of what man is thinking about all day.
You become what you think about all day long.
The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.