Don't be afraid that your life will end, be afraid that it will never begin!

Cast your whole vote, not a strip of paper merely, but your whole influence.

Most men I do not meet at all, for they seem not to have time; they are busy about their beans.

It is the marriage of the soul with nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination

You boast of spending a tenth part of your income in charity; may be you should spend the nine tenths so, and done with it.

Amid a world of noisy, shallow actors it is noble to stand aside and say, 'I will simply be.

Nothing can rightly compel a simple and brave man to a vulgar sadness.