“Happiness is a perfume which you cannot pour on someone without getting some on yourself.”
“The wise know that foolish legislation is a rope of sand, which perishes in the twisting.”
“Those who live to the future must always appear selfish to those who live to the present.”
“Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.”
“We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten.”
“The hues of the opal, the light of the diamond, are not to be seen if the eye is too near.”
“Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.”
“The worst of charity is that the lives you are asked to preserve are not worth preserving.”
“We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.”
“As men's prayers are a disease of the will, so are their creeds a disease of the intellect.”
“The first thing a great person does, is make us realize the insignificance of circumstance.”
“Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of hidden stuff.”
“Out of Plato come all things that are still written and debated about among men of thought.”
“Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness -- an open and noble temper.”
“Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power.”
“Flowers are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty out-values all the utilities of the world.”
“Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places.”
“We cannot see things that stare us in the face until the hour comes that the mind is ripened.”
“A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.”
“Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding.”
“Hitch your wagon to a star. Let us not fag in paltry works which serve our pot and bag alone.”
“The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world is the highest applause.”
“Shallow people believe in luck and in circumstances; Strong people believe in cause and effect.”
“Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.”
“Enthusiasm is the leaping lightning, not to be measured by the horse-power of the understanding.”
“Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.”
“There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrate to some stroke of the imagination.”
“'Tis a superstition to insist on a special diet. All is made at last of the same chemical atoms.”
“Every mind has a choice between truth and repose. Take which you please you can never have both.”
“As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker.”