Self-trust is the first secret of success.

A part of fate is the freedom of man. Forever wells up the impulse of choosing and acting in his soul.

Women have a less accurate measure of time than men; there is a clock in Adam, none in Eve.

It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.

There are not in the world at any one time more than a dozen persons who read and understand Plato:-never enough to pay for an edition of his works; yet to every generation these come duly down, for the sake of those few persons, as if God brought them written in his hand.

Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it

Power resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state.