A great man is always willing to be little.
An original sentence, a step forward, is worth more than all the censures.
Every genuine work of art has as much reason for being as the earth and the sun.
Every man I meet is in some way my superior, and in that, I can learn of him.
Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.
Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society.
Fame is proof that the people are gullible.
It is the fault of our rhetoric that we cannot strongly state one fact without seeming to belie some other.
Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.
Money often costs too much.
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
Nothing can be preserved that is not good.
Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Self-reliance, the height and perfection of man, is reliance on God.
Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
The ancestor of every action is a thought.
The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity.
The man who renounces himself, comes to himself.
The world stands by balanced antagonisms.
There is always a certain meanness in the argument of conservatism, joined with a certain superiority in its fact.
To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.
We do what we must, and call it by the best names we can.
What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have yet to be discovered.
You shall have joy, or you shall have power, said God; you shall not have both.