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.
What lies behind us & what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast.
Virtues are in the popular estimate rather the exception than the rule.
It is time to be old To take in sail.
Whosoever would be a man must be a non-conformist.
Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.
We go to Europe to be Americanized.
The faith that stands on authority is not faith.
The first wealth is health.
Every artist was first an amateur.
The flowering of geometry.
Hitch your wagon to a star.
Truth is beautiful, without doubt but so are lies.
The world belongs to the energetic.
Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.
Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.
Colleges hate geniuses, just as convents hate saints.
Go forth into the busy world and love it. Interest yourself in its life, mingle kindly with its joys and sorrows.
To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine.