Good writing is a kind of skating which carries off the performer where he would not go.

I can reason down or deny everything, except this perpetual Belly: feed he must and will, and I cannot make him respectable.

In art the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can inspire

Our strength grows out of our weaknesses

Pride ruined the angels.

A man is a little thing while he works by and for himself; but when he gives voice to the rules of love and justice, he is godlike

I can find my biography in every fable that I read

Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.

A good intention clothes itself with power

To laugh often and love much; to win the respect of intellingent persons and the affection of children; to earn the approbation of honest citizens and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty;...

Can anybody remember when the times were not hard, and money not scarce?

A man cannot speak but he judges himself

Sincerity is the highest complement you can pay,

The people are to be taken in very small doses

The hard soil and four months of snow make the inhabitants of the northern temperate zone wiser and abler than his fellow who enjoys the fixed smile of the tropics.

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

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

If the single man plants himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abides, this huge world will come around to him.

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn

Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain.

The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.

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

I have no churlish objection to the circumnavigation of the globe, for the purposes of art, of study, and benevolence, so that the man is first domesticated, or does not go abroad with the hope...

The First wealth is health.

Evermore in the world is this marvelous balance of beauty and disgust, magnificence and rats.

If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.

Travel is a fools paradise.

I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I’m not afraid of falling into my inkpot.

Painting was called silent poetry and poetry speaking painting.

The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue

Oh, tenderly the haughty day Fills his blue urn with fire

Character is that which can do without success.

The walking of man and all animals, is a falling forward

As every man is hunted by his own daemon, vexed by his own disease, this checks all his activity.

Every thought which genius and piety throw into the world alters the world

Shallow people believe in luck and in circumstances; Strong people believe in cause and effect.

Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor

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

Man is physically as well as metaphysically a thing of shreds and patches, borrowed unequally from good and bad ancestors, and a misfit from the start

He then learns that in going down into the secrets of his own mind he has descended into the secrets of all minds.

When a man meets his make, society begins.

Fear always springs from ignorance

Whatever limits us, we call Fate

Accept your genius and say what you think.

Men in all ways are better than they seem

No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.

Them meaning of good and bad, of better and worse, is simply helping or hurting.

We forget ourselves and our destinies in health, and the chief use of temporary sickness is to remind us of these concerns.

A forte always makes a foible.