Life too near paralyses art.
The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear.
The glory of friendship is not in the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is in the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.
Life is a progress, and not a station.
Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
Some men are born to own, and can animate all their possessions. Others cannot: their owning is not graceful; seems to be a compromise of their character: they seem to steal their own dividends.
There is no one who does not exaggerate!
The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man’s body.
He gains everyone’s approval who mixes the pleasant with the useful.
Strange, that some of us, with quick alternate vision, see beyond our infatuations, and even while we rave on the heights, behold the wide plain where our persistent self pauses and awaits us.
We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.
It isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it.
Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
Out of love and hatred, out of earnings and borrowings and leadings and losses; out of sickness and pain; out of wooing and worshipping; out of traveling and voting and watching and caring; out of disgrace and contempt, comes our tuition in the serene and beautiful laws.
A vow is a snare for sin.
Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not love you; you may settle yourself in full confidence both of my love and my esteem; I love you as a kind man, I value you as a worthy man, and hope in time to reverence you as a man of exemplary piety.
Make yourself necessary to somebody.
In this country it is a good thing to kill an admiral from time to time to encourage the others.
Sculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry.
Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual; you have an obligation to be one. You cannot make any useful contribution in life unless you do this.
You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she’ll be constantly running back.
It is impossible for a man to be cheated by anyone but himself.
