“The idol is the measure of the worshipper.”
“Freedom is the only law which genius knows.”
“Such power there is in clear-eyed self-restraint.”
“The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.”
“Democracy give every man the right to be his own oppressor.”
“Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave.”
“If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon.”
“Every person born into this world their work is born with them.”
“The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.”
“In the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking.”
“Incredulity robs us of many pleasures, and gives us nothing in return.”
“There are two kinds of weakness, that which breaks and that which bends.”
“Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.”
“To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.”
“Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.”
“What men prize most is a privilege, even if it be that of chief mourner at a funeral.”
“It is the rooted instinct in men to admire what is better and more beautiful than themselves.”
“The true ideal is not opposed to the real but lies in it; and blessed are the eyes that find it.”
“It is the privilege of genius that life never grows common place, as it does for the rest of us.”
“The mind can weave itself warmly in the cocoon of its own thoughts, and dwell a hermit anywhere.”
“Sentiment is intellectualized emotion; emotion precipitated, as it were, in pretty crystals by the fancy.”
“Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime . Not failure, but low aim is crime.”
“Good luck is the willing handmaid of a upright and energetic character, and conscientious observance of duty.”
“True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.”
“I have always been of the mind that in a democracy manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie-knife.”
“Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.”
“Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervade the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character.”
“They talk about their Pilgrim blood, their birthright high and holy! a mountain-stream that ends in mud thinks is melancholy.”
“Once to every person and nation come the moment to decide. In the conflict of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side.”
“Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done, whether you like it or not.”