All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

Men are what their mothers made them.

A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.

Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

Every artist was first an amateur.

Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.

I think we must get rid of slavery, or we must get rid of freedom.

All diseases run into one, old age.

What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.

God enters by a private door into every individual.

A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.

To be great is to be misunderstood.

Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.

Genius always finds itself a century too early.

With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.

This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.

A man in debt is so far a slave.

The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.

Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.

Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.

All mankind love a lover.

As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.

Wherever the invitation of men or your own occasions lead you, speak the very truth, as your life and conscience teach it, and cheer the waiting, fainting hearts of men with new hope and new revelation.

A great man is always willing to be little.

Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.

Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.

The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.

The intuition of the moral sentiment is an insight of the perfection of the laws of the soul. These laws execute themselves. They are out of time, out of space, and not subject to circumstance.

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.

Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.

Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.

The highest revelation is that God is in every man.

Nature hates calculators.

Beauty without expression is boring.

No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.

The faith that stands on authority is not faith.

Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.

America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.

Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.

In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs.

Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.

The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.

Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.

We are wiser than we know.

Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.

Our best thoughts come from others.

Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.

We must be our own before we can be another's.

Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.

A more secret, sweet, and overpowering beauty appears to man when his heart and mind open to the sentiment of virtue.

Good men must not obey the laws too well.

Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.

Life is a progress, and not a station.

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting.

Nothing external to you has any power over you.

We acquire the strength we have overcome.

Power and speed be hands and feet.

Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.

The first wealth is health.

No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.

Every particular in nature, a leaf, a drop, a crystal, a moment of time is related to the whole, and partakes of the perfection of the whole.

There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.

Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.

Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.

Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.

Money often costs too much.

Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.

The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.

We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.

Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.

Hitch your wagon to a star.

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.

Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.

When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.

Good is positive. Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of heat. All evil is so much death or nonentity. Benevolence is absolute and real. So much benevolence as a man hath, so much life hath he.

Science does not know its debt to imagination.

Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.

The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.

Some books leave us free and some books make us free.

The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

Always do what you are afraid to do.

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.

Life is a progress, and not a station.

We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

The years teach much which the days never know.

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.