“We do not count a man's years until he has nothing else to count.”
“The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most.”
“We live by our imagination, our admiration s, and our sentiments.”
“The essence of greatness is the perception that virtue is enough.”
“The power of love, as the basis of a State, has never been tried.”
“My chief want in life is someone who shall make me do what I can.”
“Men talk as if victory were something fortunate. Work is victory.”
“Perpetual modernness is the measure of merit in every work of art.”
“We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.”
“Intellectual tasting of life will not supersede muscular activity.”
“I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.”
“The revelation of Thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.”
“Beware what you set your heart upon. For it shall surely be yours.”
“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
“Religion is as effectually destroyed by bigotry as by indifference.”
“Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.”
“Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.”
“Our chief want in life is somebody who will make us do what we can.”
“The greatest meliorator of the world is selfish, huckstering Trade.”
“The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.”
“Nothing astonishes people so much as common sense and plain dealing.”
“For what avail the plough or sail, Or land or life, if freedom fail?”
“Nature... She pardons no mistakes. Her yea is yea, and her nay, nay.”
“The good rain, like a bad preacher, does not know when to leave off.”
“Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.”
“The ship of heaven guides itself and will not accept a wooden rudder.”
“I pay the schoolmaster, but it is the school boys who educate my son.”
“Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.”
“The next best thing to saying a good thing yourself, is to quote one.”
“The soul of God is poured into the world through the thoughts of men.”