Come my little one, and give me your hand.
Energy will do anything that can be done in the world; and no talents, no circumstances, no opportunities will make a two-legged animal a man without it.
Sowing is not as difficult as reaping.
A great deal may be done by severity, more by love, but most by clear discernment and impartial justice.
If the world does improve on the whole, yet youth must always begin anew, and go through the stages of culture from the beginning.
He who does not expect a million readers should not write a line.
If the mass of people hesitate to act, strike with swiftly and with boldness, the brave heart that understands and seizes opportunity can everything.
All men would be masters of others, and no man is lord of himself.
Whatever Nature undertakes, she can only accomplish it in a sequence. She never makes a leap.
Nature is the living, visible garment of God.
Assuredly there is no more lovely worship of God than that for which no image is required, but which springs up in our breast spontaneously when nature speaks to the soul, and the soul speaks to nature face to face.
The spectacle of Nature is always new, for she is always renewing the spectators. Life is her most exquisite invention; and death is her expert contrivance to get plenty of life.
Some people spend the day in complaining of a headache, and the night in drinking the wine that gives it.
Time does not relinquish its rights, either over human beings or over mountains.
I look upon all four Gospels as thoroughly genuine, for there shines forth from them the reflected splendor of a sublimity proceeding from Jesus Christ.
Don’t dissipate your powers; strive to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but it will surely repent of every ill-judged outlay.
I am certain that I have been here as I am now a thousand times before, and I hope to return a thousand times.
Habit is a man’s sole comfort. We dislike doing without even unpleasant things to which we have become accustomed.
One must keep repeating the Truth.
That which is eternal in Woman lifts us above.