Anger is short madness
We are free to yield to truth.
In peace, as a wise man, he should make suitable preparation for war.
Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
If you wish me to weep, you must first show grief yourself.
The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.
Usually the modest person passes for someone reserved, the silent for a sullen person
Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.
It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinions; it is easy in solitude to live after your own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
Among all forms of mistake, prophecy is the most gratuitous.
There is a difference between being convinced and being stubborn.
No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
There’s not an American in this country free until every one of us is free.
He was at a starting point which makes many a man’s career a fine subject for betting, if there were any gentlemen given to that amusement who could appreciate the complicated probabilities of an arduous purpose, with all the possible thwartings and furtherings of circumstance, all the niceties of inward balance, by which a man swings and makes his point or else is carried headlong.
Don’t think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drive into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark.
The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.
Surrender is faith that the power of love can accomplish anything… even when you can not foresee the outcome.
Every reform was once a private opinion, and when it shall be a private opinion again, it will solve the problem of the age.
Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time.
The lofty pine is oftenest shaken by the winds; High towers fall with a heavier crash; And the lightning strikes the highest mountain.
The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.
