Give all to love: Obey thy heart; Friends, kindred, days, Estate, good fame, Plans, credit, and the Muse,- Nothing refuse.
Great men are more distinguished by range and extent than by originality.
Coolness and absence of heat and haste indicate fine qualities.
Most people, who have quit smoking, have had at least one unsuccessful try in the past. It is not important how many times you try to quit. The only important thing is, that eventually you stay quit.
Practice makes perfect – the sooner you start, the sooner you will be a happy nonsmoker.
In these divine pleasures permitted to me of walks in the June night under moon and stars, I can put my life as a fact before me and stand aloof from its honor and shame.
When summer opens, I see how fast it matures, and fear it will be short; but after the heats of July and August, I am reconciled, like one who has had his swing, to the cool of autumn.
Fate, then, is a name for facts not yet passed under the fire of thought; for causes which are unpenetrated.
If we must accept fate we are not less compelled to affirm liberty, the significance of the individual, the grandeur of duty, the power of character.
We stand against fate, as children stand up against the wall in their father’s house, and notch their height from year to year. But when the boy grows to a man, and is master of the house, he pulls down that wall and builds it new and bigger.
The reason why all men honor love is because it looks up, and not down; aspires and not despairs.
Never self-possessed, or prudent, love is all abandonment.
In failing circumstances no one can be relied on to keep their integrity.
A complete man should need no auxiliaries to his personal presence.
The man who renounces himself, comes to himself.
Why should we not have a first-hand and immediate experience of God?
I have become a transparent eyeball...
Every man should let out all the length of all the reigns; should find or make a frank and healthy expression of what force and meaning is in him.
For it is only the finite that has wrought and suffered; the infinite lies stretched in smiling repose.
As there is a use in medicine for poisons, so the world cannot move without rogues.