 God screens us evermore from premature ideas. |
| Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them. |
| Great geniuses have the shortest biographies. |
| The first wealth is health. |
| Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none. |
| One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. |
| The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence. |
| The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike. |
| People that seem so glorious are all show; underneath they are like everyone else. |
| Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect. |
| The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain. |
| If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground. |
| We must be our own before we can be another's. |
| Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change. |
| Foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds. |
| Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait. |
| Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man. |
| We are always getting ready to live but never living. |
| Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail. |
| Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same. |
