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