I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.
A character is like an acrostic or Alexandrian stanza; read it forward, backward, or across, it still spells the same thing.
All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line. Many a man had taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of your first.
Life is a perpetual instruction in cause and effect.
Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.
If a man sits down to think, he is immediately asked if has a headache.
Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
Sow a thought and you reap an action; sow an act and you reap a habit; sow a habit and you reap a character; sow a character and you reap a destiny.
Nothing is secure but life, transition, the energizing spirit.
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 succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
Do that which is assigned to you and you cannot hope too much or dare too much.
Nature has made up her mind that what cannot defend itself shall not be defended.
The greatest meliorator of the world is selfish, huckstering Trade.
A good indignation brings out all one’s powers.
Conversation enriches the understanding; but solitude is the school of genius.
The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed, there is no winter and no night; all tragedies, all ennui s, vanish, all duties even.
The secret in education lies in respecting the student.
The President has paid dear for his White House. It has commonly cost him all his peace, and the best of his manly attributes. To preserve for a short time so conspicuous an appearance before the world, he is content to eat dust before the real masters who stand erect behind the throne.
We fly to beauty as an asylum from the terrors of finite nature.
Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
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