A weed is a plant whose virtue is not yet known.
The antidote to this abuse of formal Government, is, the influence of private character, the growth of the Individual.
We live in succession, in division, in parts and particles. Meantime, within man, is the soul of the whole; the wise silence; the universal beauty to which every part and particle is equally related; the eternal One.
The way to write is to throw your body at the mark when your arrows are spent.
Be not the slave of your own past – plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far.
When a happy person comes into the room, it is as if another candle has been lit.
An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man.
I do not wish to remove from my present prison to a prison a little larger. I wish to break all prisons.
If you want to be great and successful, choose people who are great and successful and walk side by side with them.
Nature is too thin a screen; the glory of the omnipresent God bursts through everywhere.
The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity. The inventor did it because it was natural to him, and so in him it has a charm. In the imitator something else is natural, and he bereaves himself of his own beauty, to come short of another man’s.
These are the voices which we hear in solitude, but they grow faint and inaudible as we enter into the world.
Art is a jealous mistress.
Neither you nor the world knows what you can do until you have tried.
Truth, and goodness, and beauty, are but different faces of the same All.
The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.
If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap than his neighbor, though he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door.
We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten.
All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.