Fate laughs at probabilities.

The astronomer who catalogues the stars cannot add one atom to the universe; the poet can call an universe from the atom.

There is no past, as long as books shall live. Books make the past our heritage and our home.

Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle at the onset.

Not in the knowledge of things without, but in the perfection of the soul within, lies the empire of man aspiring to be more than man.

To the thinker, the most trifling external object often suggests ideas, which, like Homer's chain, extend, link after link, from earth to heaven.

If thou be industrious to procure wealth, be generous in the disposal of it. Man never is so happy as when he giveth happiness unto another.