For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail?
Live well, learn plenty, laugh often, love much.
Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.
We judge of man’s wisdom by his hope.
Intellect annuls fate. So far as a man thinks he is free.
Skill to do comes of doing.
Men succeed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for their victories.
Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in?
How cunningly nature hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses and violets and morning dew!
Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude.
It is impossible for a man to be cheated by anyone but himself.
Good poetry could not have been otherwise written than it is. The first time you hear it, it sounds rather as if copied out of some invisible tablet in the Eternal mind than as if arbitrarily composed by the poet.
It does not need that a poem should be long. Every word was once a poem.
Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous or when they are most luxurious-they are conservatives after dinner.
Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.
When the man is at home, his standing in society is well known and quietly taken; but when he is abroad, it is problematical, and is dependent on the success of his manners.
Religion is to do right. It is to love, it is to serve, it is to think, it is to be humble.
Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as two sides of an algebraic equation.
Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar.
Many times the reading of a book has made the future of a man.