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The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
The ocean is a large drop; a drop is a small ocean.
We are all wise for other people, none for himself.
The highest revelation is that God is in every man.
A man becomes what he thinks about most of the time
Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer.
Life wastes itself whilst we are preparing to live.
Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.
Every man contemplates an angel in his future self.
Government has been a fossil: it should be a plant.
Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts.
An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man.
The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike.
A friend may be nature's most magnificent creation.
Truth is beautiful within and without, forevermore.
Our relations to each other are oblique and casual.
There is a tendency for things to right themselves.
There is more in every person's soul than we think.
Science, Nature,-O, I've yearned to open some page.
Life is an ecstasy. Life is sweet as nitrous oxide.
Men are lenses through which we read our own minds.
It is a tie between men to have read the same book.
The best picture makes us say, I am a painter also.
The virtues of society are the vices of the saints.
A great mind is a good sailor, as a great heart is.
The rhyme of the poet Modulates the king's affairs.
All great successes are the triumph of persistence.
He that loveth maketh his own the grandeur he loves
A cheerful, intelligent face is the end of culture.
I can find my biography in every fable that I read.
Ah, if the rich were rich as the poor fancy riches.
The mind will quote whether the tongue does or not.
Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.
The best defense against partisanship is expertise.
What is life if not the shadow of a fleeting dream?
History is not written in the interests of morality.
The universality of a custom is pledge of its worth.
I was born with a chronic anxiety about the weather.
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas.
Wit is the fetching of congruity out of incongruity.
We forgive when we give up attachment to our wounds.
I believe the twenty-four hour day has come to stay.
Life is a perpetual instruction in cause and effect.
To live the greatest number of good hours is wisdom.
Life is short but there is always time for courtesy.
Good breeding, a union of kindness and independence.
As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.
In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.