It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.
How casually and unobservedly we make all our most valued acquaintances.
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.
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...
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.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.
Marriage is the perfection of what love aimed at, ignorant of what it sought.
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...
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.
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.
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.
To stand in true relations with men in a false age is worth a fit of insanity, is it not?
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...
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...
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.
Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time.