When I bought my farm, I did not know what a bargain I had in the bluebirds, daffodils and thrushes; as little did I know what sublime mornings and sunsets I was buying.
Man’s actions are the picture book of his creeds.
A man becomes what he thinks about most of the time.
Add energy, inspire hope, and blow the coals into a useful flame...
The whole of what we know is a system of compensation. Every defect in one manner is made up in another. Every suffering is rewarded; every sacrifice is made up; every debt is paid.
The eye is the first circle; the horizon which it forms is the second; and throughout nature this primary figure is repeated without end.
The tempered light of the woods is like a perpetual morning.
I like sayers of no better than I like sayers of yes.
The power of a man increases steadily by continuance in one direction. He becomes acquainted with the resistances and with his own tools; increases his skill and strength and learns the favorable moments and favorable accidents.
This book of Montaigne the world has endorsed by translating it into all tongues.
God hides things by putting them near us.
When I walk up the piazza of Santa Croce I feel as if it were not a Florentine nor an European church but a church built by and for the human race.
My life is not an apology, but a life.
I am Defeated all the time, yet to Victory I am born.
Whatever you do, you need courage.
God will not have his work made manifest by cowards. Always, always, always, always, always do what you are afraid to do. Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain.
Society has no bribe for me...
Guard your own spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds.
The height of the pinnacle is determined by the breadth of the base.
Meek young men grow up in libraries.