Some, it seems to me, elect their rulers for their crookedness. But I think that a straight stick makes the best cane, and an upright man the best ruler.

New ideas come into this world somewhat like falling meteors, with a flash and an explosion.

The true harvest of my daily life is somewhat as intangible and indescribable as the tints of morning or evening.

The object of love expands and grows before us to eternity, until it includes all that is lovely, and we become all that can love.

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this.

Men should not labor foolishly like brutes, but the brain and the body should always, or as much as possible, work and rest together, and then the work will be of such a kind that when the body is hungry the brain will be hungry also, and the same food will suffice for both; otherwise the food which repairs the waste energy of the overwrought body will oppress the sedentary brain, and the degenerate scholar will come to esteem all food vulgar, and all getting a living drudgery.

The universe expects every man to do his duty in his parallel of latitude.