Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
That which dominates our imagination and our thoughts will determine our life and character.
As we are, so we do; and as we do, so is it done to us; we are the builders of our fortunes.
The charm of the best courages is that they are inventions, inspirations, flashes of genius.
Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power.
Action is the process whereby what is not fully formed passes into expressive consciousness.
Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness, - an open and noble temper.
When you have worn out your shoes, the strength of the show fiber has passed into your body.
Practice radical humility." He (or she)who masters the art of humility cannot be humiliated.
O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.
The world leaves no track in space, and the greatest action of man no mark in the vast idea.
Beauty is the moment of transition, as if the form were just ready to flow into other forms.
In the sublimest flights of the soul, rectitude is never surmounted, love is never outgrown.
Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places.
Why should we fear to be crushed by savage elements, we who are made up of the same elements?
A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.
Every mind is different; and the more it is unfolded, the more pronounced is that difference.
There are books... which rank in our life with parents and lovers and passionate experiences.
This knot of nature is so well tied that nobody was ever cunning enough to find the two ends.
I covet truth; beauty is unripe childhood's cheat; I leave it behind with the games of youth.
Nature never sends a great man into the planet, without confiding the secret to another soul.
We cannot let our angels go; we do not see that they only go out that archangels may come in.
The right eloquence needs no bell to call the people together, and no constable to keep them.
Perception is a mirror not a fact. And what I look on is my state of mind, reflected outward.
In politics and in trade, bruisers and pirates are of better promise than talkers and clerks.
Evermore in the world is this marvelous balance of beauty and disgust, magnificence and rats.
Silence is a solvent that destroys personality, and gives us leave to be great and universal.
Thought is the seed of action; but action is as much its second form as thought is its first.
If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.
Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding.
If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.
A person seldom falls sick but the bystanders are animated with a faint hope that he will die.
There is a capacity of virtue in us, and there is a capacity of vice to make your blood creep.
When a man says to me, "I have the intensest love of nature," at once I know that he has none.
It is doubtless a vice to turn one's eyes inward too much, but I am my own comedy and tragedy.
Every spirit makes its house, and we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant.
As soon as the man is at one with God, he will not beg. He will then see prayer in all action.
One single idea may have greater weight than all the men, animals, and machines for a century.
Congratulate yourself if you have done something strange, extravagant and broken the monotony.
The merit claimed for the Anglican Church is that, if you let it alone, it will let you alone.
Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge.
Take the place and attitude to which you see your unquestionable right, and all men acquiesce.
The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world is the highest applause.
Some of the sweetest hours in life, in retrospect will be found to have been spent with books.
The great man is not convulsible or tormentable; events pass over him without much impression.
The secret of drunkenness is, that it insulates us in thought, whilst it unites us in feeling.
Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.
Enlarge not thy destiny, said the oracle: endeavor not to do more than is given thee in charge.
Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.
Some people will tell you there is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea.
The law of nature is alternation for evermore. Each electrical state superinduces the opposite.