Go confidently ... Live the life that you imagined.

Books can only reveal us to ourselves, and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside.

Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years.

Almost any mode of observation will be successful at last, for what is most wanted is method.

Each thought that is welcomed and recorded is a nest egg, by the side of which more will be laid.

What the essential difference between man and woman is, that they should be thus attracted to one another, no one has satisfactorily answered. Perhaps we must acknowledge the justness of the distinction which assigns to man the sphere of wisdom, and to woman that of love, though neither belongs exclusively to either. Man is continually saying to woman, Why will you not be more wise? Woman is continually saying to man, Why will you not be more loving? It is not in their wills to be wise or to be loving; but, unless each is both wise and loving, there can be neither wisdom nor love.

Nature, even when she is scant and thin outwardly, satisfies us still by the assurance of a certain generosity at the roots.