The measure of mental health is the disposition to find good everywhere.
The secret is the answer to all that has been, all that is, and all that will ever be.
Sunshine cannot bleach the snow, Nor time unmake what poets know.
He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatest of the soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported without the latter.
Whatever limits us we call fate.
No man can have society upon his own terms.
From within or from behind, a light shines through us upon things, and makes us aware that we are nothing, but the light is all.
The next best thing to saying a good thing yourself is to quote one.
For the resolute and determined, there is time and opportunity.
We do what we must, and call it by the best names.
The virtue of books is to be readable.
Lose yourself in nature and find peace.
In the great books of India, an empire spoke to us, nothing small or unworthy, but large, serene, consistent, the voice of an old intelligence, which in another age and climate had pondered and thus disposed of the questions that exercise us.
Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow.
The first farmer was the first man, and all historic nobility rests on possession and use of land.
Sugar is not so sweet to the palate as sound to the healthy ear.
That which dominates our imagination and our thoughts will determine our life and character.
This valley is the only place that comes up to the brag about it, and exceeds it.
No matter how often you are defeated, you are born to victory.
The torpid artist seeks inspiration at any cost, by virtue or by vice, by friend or by fiend, by prayer or by wine.