Cunning is strength withheld.

You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity,―expensive races,―race living at the expense of race.

There is no knowledge that is not power.

Be not the slave of your own past – plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so you shall come back with new self-respect, with new power, and with an advanced experience...

The only sin that we never forgive in each other is a difference in opinion.

Envy is ignorance, Imitation is Suicide.

Art is the path of the creator to his work.

A friend may be nature’s most magnificent creation.

Life is a train of moods like a string of beads; and as we pass through them they prove to be many colored lenses, which paint the world their own hue, and each shows us...

When we are young, we spend much time and pains in filling our note-books with all definitions of Religion, Love, Poetry, Politics, Art, in the hope that, in the course of a few years, we...

The sky is less grand as it shuts down over less worth in the population.

The poet knows that he speaks adequately, then, only when he speaks somewhat wildly.

If eyes were made for seeing, then beauty is its own excuse for being.

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

Have mountains, and waves, and skies, no significance but what we consciously give them, when we employ them as emblems of our thoughts?

One man thinks justice consists in paying debts, and has no measure in his abhorrence of another who is very remiss in this duty and makes the creditor wait tediously. But that second man has...

As men’s prayers are a disease of the will, so are their creeds a disease of the intellect.

On my saying, What have I to do with the sacredness of traditions, if I live wholly from within? my friend suggested,–“But these impulses may be from below, not from above.” I replied, “They do...

There is an optical illusion about every person we meet.

I will not hide my tastes or aversions. I will so trust that what is deep is holy, that I will do strongly before the sun and moon whatever only rejoices me, and the heart...

The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.

These times of ours are serious and full of calamity, but all times are essentially alike

Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.

The cardinal virtue of a teacher (is) to protect the pupil from his own influence

For each thorn, there’s a rosebud… for each twilight a dawn… for each trial the strength to carry on, For each stormcloud a rainbow… for each shadow the sun… for each parting sweet memories when...

We never touch but at points.

Reality is a sliding door.

The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but deliverance from fear

The education of the will is the object of our existence.

a word of contempt often in his mouth.

Our best thoughts come from others.

Sorrow makes us all children again, destroys all differences of intellect. The wisest knows nothing.

Knowledge exists to be imparted

All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Each man is a hero and an oracle to somebody

The passages of Shakespeare that we most prize were never quoted until within this century

The child with his sweet pranks, the fool of his senses, commanded by every sight and sound, without any power to compare and rank his sensations, abandoned to a whistle or a painted chip, to...

The mind does not create what it perceives, any more than the eye creates the rose

Who you are speaks so loudly I can’t hear what you’re saying.

Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them

The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.

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

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experience.

The true poem is the poet’s mind.

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

All minds quote. Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment. There is no thread that is not a twist of these two strands.

The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it.

Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are...

The selfish man suffers more from his selfishness than he from whom that selfishness withholds some important benefit.

Ideas must work through the brains and arms of men, or they are no better than dreams