The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity.
A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
History is a mighty dramos, enacted upon the theatre of times, with suns for lamps and eternity for a background.
If Hero means sincere man, why may not every one of us be a Hero?
A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men.
In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.
Without kindness there can be no true joy.
Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.
The fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself.
Who is it that loves me and will love me forever with an affection which no chance, no misery, no crime of mine can do away? It is you, my mother.
No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.
A stammering man is never a worthless one. Physiology can tell you why. It is an excess of sensibility to the presence of his fellow creature, that makes him stammer.
A man’s religion consists, not of the many things he is in doubt of and tries to believe, but of the few he is assured of and has no need of effort for believing.
The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows. The greatest of faults, I should say is to be conscious of none.
It is now almost my sole rule of life to clear myself of cants and formulas, as of poisonous Nessus shirts.
Lord Bacon could as easily have created the planets as he could have written Hamlet.
He that works and does some Poem, not he that merely says one, is worthy of the name of Poet.
The eye of the intellect “sees in all objects what it brought with it the means of seeing.”
The situation that has not its duty, its ideal, was never yet occupied by man. Yes, here, in this poor, miserable, hampered, despicable actual, wherein thou even now standest, here or nowhere is thy ideal; work it out therefrom, and, working, believe, live, be free. Fool! the ideal is in thyself.