Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.
Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.
All diseases run into one, old age.
Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.
I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
Every man I meet is in some way my superior.
It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay.
People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.
Reality is a sliding door.
Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.
There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.
Genius always finds itself a century too early.
Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.
Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.
It is the quality of the moment, not the number of days, or events, or of actors, that imports.
Work and acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of chance.
A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.
We do not count a man’s years until he has nothing else to count.
So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the amount of each person’s genius is confined to a very few hours.
Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief in denying them.