It is a misfortune to pass at once from observation to conclusion, and to regard both as of equal value; but it befalls many a student.

Energy will do anything that can be done in the world; and no talents, no circumstances, no opportunities will make a two-legged animal a man without it.

Be always resolute with the present hour. Every moment is of infinite value.

A purpose you impart is no longer your own.

Over all the mountain tops is peace. In all treetops you perceive scarcely a breath. The little birds in the forest are silent. Wait then; soon, you too, will have peace.

When the healthy nature of man acts as a whole, when he feels himself to be in the world as in a great, beautiful, noble, and valued whole, when harmonious ease affords him a pure and free delight, then the universe, if it could experience itself, would exult, as having attained its goal, and admire the climax of its own becoming and essence.

We rather confess our moral errors, faults, and crimes than our ignorance.