Travel is a fools paradise.
We have more than we use.
The foundations of a person are not in matter but in spirit.
The quality of the imagination is to flow and not to freeze.
Hitch your wagon to a star.
Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws. She hums the old well-known air through innumerable variations.
Earth laughs in flowers.
It’s not the adversity, but how you face it.
He gains everyone’s approval who mixes the pleasant with the useful.
It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
Fear follows crime and is its punishment.
He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.
You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she’ll be constantly running back.
The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.
The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.
The hour of departure has arrived and we go our ways; I to die, and you to live. Which is better? Only God knows.
Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.
Nay, number itself in armies importeth not much, where the people is of weak courage; for, as Virgil saith, It never troubles the wolf how many the sheep be.
To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men – that is genius.
It is only through labour and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage; that we move on to better things.
Don’t try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.
It is the true office of history to represent the events themselves, together with the counsels, and to leave the observations and conclusions thereupon to the liberty and faculty of every man’s judgment.
