Cause and effect are two sides of one fact. |
With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now. |
You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late. |
The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common. |
Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world. |
To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded. |
Our best thoughts come from others. |
Some books leave us free and some books make us free. |
It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay. |
If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest. |
Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified. |
Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events. |
We are symbols, and inhabit symbols. |
Genius always finds itself a century too early. |
Every hero becomes a bore at last. |
Every artist was first an amateur. |
We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature. |
All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. |
The highest revelation is that God is in every man. |
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing. |