Every child begins the world again.

What the banker sighs for, the meanest clown may have-leisure and a quiet mind.

I am less affected by their heroism who stood up for half an hour in the front line at Buena Vista, than by the steady and cheerful valor of the men who inhabit the snow-plow for their winter quarters; who have not merely the three-o'-clock-in-the-morning courage, which Bonaparte thought was the rarest, but whose courage does not go to rest so early, who go to sleep only when the storm sleeps or the sinews of their iron steed are frozen.

If we respected only what is inevitable and has a right to be, music and poetry would resound along the streets.

The morning, which is the most memorable season of the day, is the awakening hour. Then there is least somnolence in us; and for an hour, at least, some part of us awakes which slumbers all the rest of the day and night... All memorable events, I should say, transpire in morning time and in a morning atmosphere. The Vedas say, “All intelligences awake with the morning.

To be a philosopher... is to solve some of the problems of life, not only theoretically, but practically.

The largest pond is as sensitive to atmospheric changes as the globule of mercury in its tube.