“Nothing can bring you peace but yourself; nothing, but the triumph of principles.”
“Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins.”
“This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.”
“People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.”
“My evening visitors, if they cannot see the clock should find the time in my face.”
“Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.”
“We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases.”
“Sculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry.”
“There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into power.”
“The god of victory is said to be one-handed, but peace gives victory on both sides.”
“Condense some daily experience into a glowing symbol and an audience is electrified.”
“Oh man! There is no planet sun or star could hold you, if you but knew what you are.”
“I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I am not afraid of falling into my inkpot.”
“We must set up a strong present tense against all rumors of wrath, past and to come.”
“Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them.”
“Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.”
“It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.”
“We estimate the wisdom of nations by seeing what they did with their surplus capital.”
“No one has a prosperity so high and firm that two or three words can't dishearten it.”
“Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.”
“Shall we judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? By the minority, surely.”
“The arts and inventions of each period are only its costume, and do not invigorate men.”
“There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right.”
“In every man there is something wherein I may learn of him, and in that I am his pupil.”
“Let us treat the men and women well: treat them as if they were real: perhaps they are.”
“The reason why men do not obey us is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.”
“Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.”
“If I cannot brag of knowing something, then I brag of not knowing it; at any rate, brag.”
“Give no bounties: make equal laws: secure life and prosperity and you need not give alms.”
“We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates.”