"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."

"If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare."

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

"People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never."

"In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed."

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

"The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye."

"America is another name for opportunity."

"People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character."

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

"Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods."

"Cause and effect are two sides of one fact."

"All mankind love a lover."

"We gain the strength of the temptation we resist."

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

"The years teach much which the days never know."

"Every artist was first an amateur."

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

"Power and speed be hands and feet."

"Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides, to find the other: given the upper, to find the under side."

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

"Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass."

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

"We are always getting ready to live but never living."

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

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

"No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character."

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

"The first wealth is health."

"I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it."

"Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated."

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

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

"Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment."

"For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else."

"Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same."

"No great man ever complains of want of opportunity."

"Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors."

"Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen."

"We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature."

"As soon as there is life there is danger."

"A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature."

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

"There is always safety in valor."

"The faith that stands on authority is not faith."

"Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence."

"Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events."

"The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike."

"I hate quotations. Tell me what you know."

"I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching."