The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men around to his opinion twenty years later.
We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a belly-full of words and do not know a thing. The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means of education.
The faith that stands on authority is not faith.
When I was praised I lost my time, for instantly I turned around to look at the work I had thought slightly of, and that day I made nothing new.
Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.
There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into power.
It is a happy talent to know how to play.
Valor consists in the power of self recovery.
Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful; for beauty is God’s handwriting – a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair sky, in every fair flower, and thank God for it as a cup of blessing.
In America the geography is sublime, but the men are not; the inventions are excellent, but the inventors one is sometimes ashamed of.
As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker.
Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds.
There is nothing capricious in nature and the implanting of a desire indicates that its gratification is in the constitution of the creature that feel it.
All my best thoughts were stolen by the ancients.
Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors.
Self-trust is the essence of heroism.
The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.
You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
The greatest man in history was the poorest.
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.
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