Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel. It is to bring another out of his bad sense into your good sense.
I cannot find language of sufficient energy to convey my sense of the sacredness of private integrity.
Everything in our world, even a drop of dew, is a microcosm of the universe.
Blame is safer than praise.
There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right.
All promise outruns performance.
We are very near to greatness: one step and we are safe; can we not take the leap?
A man will be eloquent if you give him good wine.
The writer is an explorer. Every step is an advance into a new land.
Good writing is a kind of skating which carries off the performer where he would not go.
In good writing, words become one with things.
Self sacrifice is the real miracle out of which all the reported miracles grow.
Art is not to be found by touring to Egypt, China, or Peru; if you cannot find it at your own door, you will never find it.
It is only when the mind and character slumber that the dress can be seen.
Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if your rights as a rational being are trenched on, die on the first inch of your territory.
Happy is the house that shelters a friend.
The prayer of the farmer kneeling in his field to weed it, the prayer of the rower kneeling with the stroke of his oar, are true prayers heard throughout nature.
Some thoughts always find us young, and keep us so. Such a thought is the love of the universal and eternal beauty.
He that writes to himself writes to an eternal public.
Respect the child. Wait and see the new product of Nature. Nature loves analogies, but not repetitions. Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude.