The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it.

What is the foundation of that interest all men feel in Greek history, letters, art, and poetry, in all its periods, from the Heroic or Homeric age down to the domestic life of the Athenians and Spartans, four or five centuries later? What but this, that every man passes personally through a Grecian period.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

It is bad enough that our geniuses cannot do anything useful, but it is worse that no man is fit for society who has fine traits.He is admired at a distance, but he cannot come near without appearing a cripple.

All diseases run into one, old age.

Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.

You must let go of a thing for a new one to come to you.