“Nature magically suits the man to his fortunes, by making these the fruit of his character.”
“The first thing a great person does, is make us realize the insignificance of circumstance.”
“Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of hidden stuff.”
“Out of Plato come all things that are still written and debated about among men of thought.”
“Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness -- an open and noble temper.”
“Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power.”
“A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking.”
“Flowers are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty out-values all the utilities of the world.”
“Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places.”
“We cannot see things that stare us in the face until the hour comes that the mind is ripened.”
“A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.”
“Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding.”
“Hitch your wagon to a star. Let us not fag in paltry works which serve our pot and bag alone.”
“The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world is the highest applause.”
“His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong.”
“Shallow people believe in luck and in circumstances; Strong people believe in cause and effect.”
“Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.”
“Enthusiasm is the leaping lightning, not to be measured by the horse-power of the understanding.”
“Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.”
“There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrate to some stroke of the imagination.”
“'Tis a superstition to insist on a special diet. All is made at last of the same chemical atoms.”
“Every mind has a choice between truth and repose. Take which you please you can never have both.”
“As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker.”
“The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.”
“The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear.”
“Some will always be above others. Destroy the inequality today, and it will appear again tomorrow.”
“The first farmer was the first man. All historic nobility rests on the possession and use of land.”
“Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.”
“Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.”
“People wish to be settled. It is only as far as they are unsettled that there is any hope for them.”