One life – a little gleam of Time between two Eternities.
Love is ever the beginning of knowledge as fire is of light.
It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.
Bright, heroic, tender, true and noble was that lost treasure of my heart, who faithfully accompanied me in all the rocky ways and climbings; and I am forever poor without her.
Of all the paths a man could strike into, there is, at any given moment, a best path... A thing which, here and now, it were of all things wisest for him to do... To find this path, and walk in it, is the one thing needful for him.
The history of the world is but a biography of great men.
In every object there is inexhaustible meaning.
Idleness is worst, Idleness alone is without hope: work earnestly at anything, you will by degrees learn to work at almost all things. There is endless hope in work, were it even work at making money.
Literature, so far as it is Literature, is an ‘apocalypse of Nature,’ a revealing of the ’open secret.
Wondrous indeed is the virtue of a true Book.
Ceea ce devenim depinde in mare masura de ce citim.
Economics is not a gay science. It is a dreary, desolate, and indeed quite abject and distressing one; what we might call, by way of eminence, the dismal science.
Endurance is patience concentrated.
He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.
A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.
I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will.
The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.
If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.