You must learn to be strong in the dark as well as in the day, else you will always be only half brave.

Philosophy is really homesickness.

For this, deep waters whelm the fruitful lea, Wars ravage, famine wastes, plague withers, nor Shall cease till men have chosen the better part.

For the bliss of the animals lies in this, that, on their lower level, they shadow the bliss of those--few at any moment on the earth--who do not 'look before and after, and pine for what is not,' but live in the holy carelessness of the eternal now.

It matters little where a man may be at this moment; the point is whether he is growing.

It is a happy thing for us that this is really all we have to concern ourselves about--what to do next. No man can do the second thing. He can do the first.

One of the grandest things in having rights is, that though they are your rights you may give them up