A great man is always willing to be little.

Sitting back in the evening, stargazing and stroking your dog, is an infallible remedy.

The astonishment of life is the absence of any appearances of reconciliation between the theory and the practice of life.

The secret of success lies never in the amount of money, but in the relation of income to outgo.

There was never anything that did not proceed from a thought.

The only gift is a portion of thyself . . . the poet brings his poem; the shepherd his lamb. . . .

So in accepting the leading of the sentiments, it is not what we believe concerning the immortality of the soul, or the like, but the universal impulse to believe, that is the material circumstance, and is the principal fact in this history of the globe.