Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.
The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.
It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, ‘always do what you are afraid to do.’
It is in rugged crises, in unbearable endurance, and in aims which put sympathy out of the question, that the angel is shown.
When we have arrived at the question, the answer is already near.
He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, while he who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere.
The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but for the deliverance from fear. It is the storm within that endangers him, not the storm without.
You cannot do wrong without suffering wrong.
Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.
What a new face courage puts on everything!
Desire is possibility seeking expression.
We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.
Liberty is a slow fruit.
Concentration is the secret of strength in politics, in war, in trade, in short in all management of human affairs.
Art is the path of the creator to his work.
As men’s prayers are a disease of the will, so are their creeds a disease of the intellect.
No matter how you seem to fatten on a crime, there can never be good for the bee which is bad for the hive.
We see the world piece by piece, as the sun, the moon, the animal, the tree; but the whole, of which these are shining parts, is the soul.
Men should take their knowledge from the Sun, the Moon and the Stars.
A little integrity is better than any career.