The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.
As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.
All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.
We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more.
Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.
A great man is always willing to be little.
Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.
Our best thoughts come from others.
Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.
Men are what their mothers made them.
Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.
Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.
We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.
We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.
God screens us evermore from premature ideas.
The highest revelation is that God is in every man.
Good men must not obey the laws too well.
Power and speed be hands and feet.
No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.
Our faith comes in moments our vice is habitual.
The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.
The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.
The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.
Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.
Each age, it is found, must write its own books or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.
Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.
We acquire the strength we have overcome.
A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.
Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.
All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.
Nothing external to you has any power over you.
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.
Earth laughs in flowers.
Every artist was first an amateur.
A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.
We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.
Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.
Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.
Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.
As soon as there is life there is danger.
It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.
Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.
The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.
Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.
The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.
Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.
Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.
Truth is beautiful, without doubt but so are lies.
Money often costs too much.
Science does not know its debt to imagination.
To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
Genius always finds itself a century too early.
A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.
No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
With the past, I have nothing to do nor with the future. I live now.
Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.
I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
To be great is to be misunderstood.
The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.
There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.
As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.
Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.
People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.
Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.
Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.
Beauty without expression is boring.
Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.
There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.
The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?
All mankind love a lover.
The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.
Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.
Nature hates calculators.
Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
In the morning a man walks with his whole body in the evening, only with his legs.
Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
Pictures must not be too picturesque.
Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.
A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.
Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time.
All diseases run into one, old age.
The faith that stands on authority is not faith.
The years teach much which the days never know.
People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.
Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.
I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.
Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
A good indignation brings out all one's powers.
Trust men and they will be true to you treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.
Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.
The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.