Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.
To be great is to be misunderstood.
Marriage is the perfection of what love aimed at, ignorant of what it sought.
We do not know today whether we are busy or idle. In times when we thought ourselves indolent we have discovered afterward that much was accomplished and much was begun in us.
A friend may be nature's most magnificent creation.
The religion of one age is the literary entertainment of the next.
That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do has increased.
He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.
People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.
As many thoughts in succession substantiate themselves, we shall by and by stand in a new world of our own creation, and no longer strangers and pilgrims in a traditionary globe. My friends have come...
To stand in true relations with men in a false age is worth a fit of insanity, is it not?
What can we see, read, acquire, but ourselves. Take the book, my friend, and read your eyes out, you will never find there what I find.
Love, and you shall be loved.
The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.
Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time.
Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.
It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.
If he had the earth for his pasture and the sea for his pond, he would be a pauper still. He only is rich who owns the day. There is no king, rich man, fairy or demon who possesses such power as that.
The law of nature is alternation for evermore. Each electrical state superinduces the opposite. The soul environs itself with friends, that it may enter into a grander self-acquaintance or solitude; a...