Imitation cannot go above its model.
A man’s power to connect his thought with its proper symbol, and so to utter it, depends on the simplicity of his character, that is, upon his love of truth, and his desire to communicate it without loss.
The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind.
It’s not the destination, it’s the journey.
If we shall take the good we find, asking no questions, we shall have heaping measures.
These times of ours are series and full of calamity, but all times are essentially alike. As soon as there is life there is danger.
Let us leave hurry to slaves.
Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then takes a young heart heating under fourscore winters.
Those who live to the future must always appear selfish to those who live to the present.
Give me insight into today and you may have the antique and future worlds.
Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts.
Poverty, Frost, Famine, Rain, Disease, are the beadles and guardsmen that hold us to Common Sense.
Luck is just another word for tenacity of purpose.
It is one of the biggest blessing that you can be stupid with your true friends and behave like you shame to do elsewhere.
If two or three persons should come with a high spiritual aim and with great powers, the world would fall into their hands like a ripe peach.
We change whether we like it or not.
It is plain that there is no separate essence called courage, no cup or cell in the brain, no vessel in the heart containing drops or atoms that make or give this virtue; but it is the right or healthy state of every man, when he is free to do that which is constitutional to him to do.
This day is all that is good and fair. It is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on the yesterdays.
Some will always be above others. Destroy the inequality today, and it will appear again tomorrow.
Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.