No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature.
The mass of men worry themselves into nameless graves while here and there a great unselfish soul forgets himself into immortality.
Nothing is secure but life, transition, the energizing spirit.
Get Health. No labor, effort nor exercise that can gain it must be grudged.
There is a time when a man distinguishes the idea of felicity from the idea of wealth; it is the beginning of wisdom.
A skillful man reads his dreams for self-knowledge, yet not the details but the quality.
Let the bird sing without deciphering the song.
Do what you know and perception is converted into character.
Live, let live, and help live.
An orator or author is never successful till he has learned to make his words smaller than his ideas.
We cannot overstate our debt to the Past, but the moment has the supreme claim.
If government knew how, I should like to see it check, not multiply, the population. When it reaches its true law of action, every man that is born will be hailed as essential.
Only by obedience to his genius; only by the freest activity in the way constitutional to him, does an angel seem to arise beforea man, and lead him by the hand out of all the wards of the prison.
Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.
If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.
Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are.
Doing well is the result of doing good. That’s what capitalism is all about.
Make yourself necessary to somebody.
Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one’s self?