If we meet no gods, it is because we harbor none.

The life of labor does not make men, but drudges.

Eloquence shows the power and possibility of man.

All that is literature seeks to communicate power

I have lost the freedom of not having an opinion.

Perhaps I am not as wise as I like to think I am.

The grandeur of Jerusalem is also... its problem.

We like someone because. We love someone although.

Nature delights in the most plain and simple diet.

Serendipity was my tour guide, assisted by caprice

Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.

We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.

Nature, through all her kingdoms, insures herself.

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.

We do not yet trust the unknown power of thoughts.

All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.

We do what we must, and call it by the best names.

Nature encourages no looseness; pardons no errors.

Everything in nature goes by law, and not by luck.

The sky is the ultimate art gallery just above us.

Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee.

The line of beauty is the line of perfect economy.

All science is transcendental or else passes away.

It is with a good book as it is with good company.

Some natures are too good to be spoiled by praise.

Words are finite expressions of the infinite mind.

There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue.

The eyes of men converse as much as their tongues.

Luck is just another word for tenacity of purpose.

Power is in nature the essential measure of right.

The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity.

The house is a castle which the King cannot enter.

The reward of a thing well done is having done it.

One can be a great poet and be politically stupid.

I could work in the shower if I had plastic paper.

A dead grief is easier to bear than a live trouble.

If you want to change your art, change your habits.

A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.

The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship.

Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.

Charity is the perfection and ornament of religion.

Admiration involves a glorious obliquity of vision.

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.

The ancients called beauty the flowering of virtue.

The great majority of men are bundles of beginnings

God will not have his work made manifest by cowards

Courage of the soldier awakes the courage of woman.

When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless.

God enters by a private door into every individual.

Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.

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