It is not what talents or genius a man has, but how he is to his talents, that constitutes friendship and character. The man thatstands by himself, the universe stands by him also.

That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do has increased.

We grizzle every day. I see no need of it. Whilst we converse with what is above us, we do not grow old, but grow young.

Miracle comes to the miraculous, not to the arithmetician.

The age of puberty is a crisis in the age of man worth studying. It is the passage from the unconscious to the conscious; from thesleep of passions to their rage.

The learned and the studious of thought have no monopoly of wisdom. Their violence of direction in some degree disqualifies them to think truly.

When the night is darkest, the stars come out.