“What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.”
“Weed -- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.”
“Do what you know and perception is converted into character.”
“No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.”
“Many might go to Heaven with half the labor they go to hell.”
“The quality of the imagination is to flow and not to freeze.”
“The foundations of a person are not in matter but in spirit.”
“The laws of each are convertible into the laws of any other.”
“Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.”
“We know better than we do. We do not yet possess ourselves...”
“The masses have no habit of self reliance or original action.”
“We talk of choosing our friends, but friends are self-elected”
“Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.”
“Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.”
“See only that thou work and thou canst not escape the reward.”
“A weed is a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.”
“Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.”
“Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.”
“One definition of man is ''an intelligence served by organs.''”
“Nothing is secure but life, transition, the energizing spirit.”
“Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.”
“Trust instinct to the end, even though you can give no reason.”
“No matter how often you are defeated, you are born to victory.”
“Men over forty are no judges of a book written in a new spirit.”
“If you believe in fate, believe in it, at least, for your good.”
“Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts.”
“Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.”
“When Nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.”
“It is impossible for a man to be cheated by anyone but himself.”
“Painting was called silent poetry and poetry speaking painting.”