Genius is a light which makes the darkness visible, like the lightning’s flash, which perchance shatters the temple of knowledge itself.
It is an unfortunate discovery certainly, that of a law which binds us where we did not know before that we were bound.
Where there is a lull of truth, an institution springs up. But the truth blows right on over it, nevertheless, and at length blows it down.
Every man must walk to the beat of his own drummer.
A man’s wealth is measured by what he doesn’t need.
When a man’s conscience and the laws clash, it is his conscience that he must follow.
I wish to learn what life has to teach, and not, when I come to die, discover that I have not truly lived.
All endeavour calls for the ability to tramp the last mile, shape the last plan, endure the last hours toil.
The scenery when it is truly seen reacts on the life of the seer.
Endeavor to live the life you have imagined.
Let go of the past and go for the future.
There are various tough problems yet to solve, and we must shift to live, betwixt spirit and matter, such a human life as we can.
Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life. This life in the present.
An unclean person is universally a slothful one.
Nature and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall say what prospect life offers to another?
We are not what we are, nor do we treat or esteem each other for such, but for what we are capable of being.
How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?
The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.
Instead of noblemen, let us have noble villages of men.
Do what nobody else can do for you. Omit to do anything else.