Our first mistake is the belief that the circumstance gives the joy which we give to the circumstance.
The eloquent man is he who is no beautiful speaker, but who is inwardly and desperately drunk with a certain belief.
Men are what their mothers made them.
In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.
A man’s growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
The first wealth is health.
No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.
All mankind love a lover.
There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.
Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.
Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.
The reward of a thing well done is having done it.
The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.
Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.
This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.
Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.
I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.
We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.
Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.
Science does not know its debt to imagination.