 No man ever prayed heartily without learning something. |
| Power and speed be hands and feet. |
| The only way to have a friend is to be one. |
| Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world. |
| What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered. |
| A good indignation brings out all one's powers. |
| Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting. |
| Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. |
| There are other measures of self-respect for a man, than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day. |
| Every burned book enlightens the world. |
| Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not. |
| For every benefit you receive a tax is levied. |
| The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood. |
| Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know. |
| I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons. |
| Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding. |
| Nothing external to you has any power over you. |
| I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching. |
| The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles. |
| Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes. |
