To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.
For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.
His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong.
Wise men put their trust in ideas and not in circumstances.
Self-trust is the first secret of success.
In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs.
People only see what they are prepared to see.
The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means to an education.
Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.
The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.
Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness, – an open and noble temper.
Sickness is poor-spirited, and cannot serve anyone; it must husband its resources to live. But health or fullness answers its own ends, and has to spare, runs over, and inundates the neighborhoods and creeks of other men’s necessities.
You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.
By God, I will not obey this filthy enactment!
Good thoughts are no better than good dreams if you don’t follow through.
I suffer whenever I see that common sight of a parent or senior imposing his opinion and way of thinking and being on a young soul to which they are totally unfit. Cannot we let people be themselves, and enjoy life in their own way? You are trying to make that man another you. One’s enough.
We don’t grow old. When we cease to grow, we become old.
Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force – that thoughts rule the world.