All our progress is an unfolding, like a vegetable bud. You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge as the plant has root, bud, and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.
Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.
Five minutes of today are worth as much to me, as five minutes in the next millennium. Let us be poised, and wise, and our own, today.
Them meaning of good and bad, of better and worse, is simply helping or hurting.
A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self-control is the rule.
The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.
Who shall set a limit to the influence of a human being?
It is impossible for a man to be cheated by anyone but himself.
The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.
Cities give us collision. ‘Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.
Sincerity is the luxury allowed, like diadems and authority, only to the highest rank. Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins.
Shallow people believe in luck and in circumstances; Strong people believe in cause and effect.
In nature nothing can be given. All things are sold.
If a man’s eye is on the Eternal, his intellect will grow.
The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in the poem.
For everything you have missed, you have gained something else; and for everything you gain, you lose something else.
Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two. This you cannot do without temperance.
Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.
As long as our civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions. Our riches will leave us sick; there will be bitterness in our laughter; and our wine will burn our mouth. Only that good profits, which we can taste with all doors open, and which serves all men.
Hitch your wagon to a star.
In skating over thin ice, our safety is in our speed.
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