"A great man is always willing to be little."

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

"Reality is a sliding door."

"Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold."

"Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact."

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

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

"Beauty without expression is boring."

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

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

"I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons."

"People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know."

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

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

"There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount."

"It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them."

"Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are."

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

"The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common."

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

"A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends."

"The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society."

"All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better."

"Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes."

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

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

"Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait."

"Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them."

"Every spirit makes its house, and we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant."

"We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse."

"All diseases run into one, old age."

"Nature hates calculators."

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

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

"Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies."

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

"A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer."

"The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain."

"We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more."

"Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men."

"Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action."

"People only see what they are prepared to see."

"People that seem so glorious are all show; underneath they are like everyone else."

"Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get."

"Good men must not obey the laws too well."

"Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?"

"The reward of a thing well done is having done it."

"Every burned book enlightens the world."

"A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us."

"In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine."